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Severance / Intercourse (Paperback, Uk Ed.)
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Severance / Intercourse (Paperback, Uk Ed.)
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The human head remains in a state of consciousness for one and a
half minutes after decapitation. In a heightened state of emotion,
people speak at a rate of 160 words per minute. Inspired by this,
Robert Olen Butler wrote Severance, sixty-two vignettes each
exactly 240 words in length, that capture the flow of thoughts that
go through a person's mind after their head has been severed. Here
are the imagined ultimate words of famous and invented figures -
Medusa, Sir Walter Raleigh, Anne Boleyn, Jayne Mansfield, and a
chicken, beheaded for Sunday dinner. Following on from this, Butler
addressed the question of: what goes through the mind of a person
while having sex? Turning his daring imagination to the intimate,
Butler lays bare the most flagrant, personal thoughts and feelings
of fifty, often surprising, couples in Intercourse.
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