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.
In a heightened state of emotion, people speak at a rate of 160 words per minute. The human head remains in a state of consciousness for one and a half minutes after decapitation. In execution, it's even better – beautiful, hilarious, horrifying and humane' – Dave Eggers With a clear eye and dark humour, Danielle Pender considers sex, parenting, grief and class as lenses for the ways in which the world watches women - and how women are always watching back. This debut collection movingly explores how women and girls are looked at, look at one another, and look at themselves, and how living as an object can shape their passions, fears, and joys. “Every aspect of her body or personality was up for inspection: too big, too small, too available, too hidden, too much, not enough.”Ī wedding day brings back memories of sisterhood and betrayals a motorway service station is the site of explosive violence, but also strange bonds a trip home forces a reminder of a life-changing, lost friendship a woman confronts her own infidelity an artist celebrates a life spent in observation.
When you look at a woman, who do you see?
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