Goodbye Kurt Vonnegut, You Were a Seriously Cool Dude

[Strangler Lewis]

Originally Posted by Moonliner

In college my roomate had to write a critique of a "Breakfast of Champions". The teacher did not like his take on the book, gave him a bad grade and said his views were just wrong. So my roomie sent his paper along with the teachers comments to Kurt. About a month later he received back a message:

Dear John:

Your teacher is an asshole.

Sincerely
Kurt Vonnegut


(oops, I just noticed the other thread on this. Would someone merge this with that?)

Nice story. Interestingly, that was basically the bit in Back to School. Rodney hired Kurt Vonnegut to write his English paper on a Vonnegut novel. The snooty professor recognized that Rodney could not have written the essay and added that whoever did knows nothing about Vonnegut.

Professors being professors, you'd probably get the same result with whatever author you plugged in.