TIL at the start of his career, writer Kurt Vonnegut was assigned to write a column for Sports Illustrated about a racehorse that jumped the fence and ran away, after staring at the blank piece of paper on his typewriter all morning, he typed, "The horse jumped over the f**king fence", and left.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Vonnegut#Post-war_career



Submitted January 24, 2015 at 01:25AM by hardboil3d http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/2tfpwy/til_at_the_start_of_his_career_writer_kurt/

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