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Louis XVI. King of France, guillotined by order of the Revolutionary Tribunal, 1793. The human head is believed to remain in a state of consciousness for one and one-half minutes after decapitation. In a heightened state of emotion, people speak at the rate of 160 words per minute. Inspired by the intersection of these two seemingly unrelated concepts, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Robert Olen Butler wrote sixty-two stories, each exactly 240 words in length, capturing the flow of thoughts and feelings that go through a person’s mind after their head has been severed. —Severance: Stories by Robert Olen Butler source: my scan

Louis XVI. King of France, guillotined by order of the Revolutionary Tribunal, 1793.

The human head is believed to remain in a state of consciousness for one and one-half minutes after decapitation. In a heightened state of emotion, people speak at the rate of 160 words per minute. Inspired by the intersection of these two seemingly unrelated concepts, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Robert Olen Butler wrote sixty-two stories, each exactly 240 words in length, capturing the flow of thoughts and feelings that go through a person’s mind after their head has been severed.

—Severance: Stories by Robert Olen Butler

source: my scan

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