{"product_id":"severance-intercourse","title":"Robert Olen Butler: Severance \/ Intercourse [2016] paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe 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 \u003cem\u003eSeverance\u003c\/em\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFollowing 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 \u003cem\u003eIntercourse\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Butler, Robert Olen","offers":[{"title":"Good","offer_id":48133297635667,"sku":"XG81843447597","price":5.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/butler-robert-olen-severance-intercourse-xg81843447597-55882572071251.jpg?v=1728299468","url":"https:\/\/chaptersbookstore.com\/products\/severance-intercourse","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}