A heroine in Tarantino's Curdled was so eager to know whether a human head will be able to speak after it is cut that she couldn't rest until she found out for herself. Is it a true axiom that says a human body cannot live without brain?
"Do the clouds make rain? Or is it the rain that makes the clouds? What makes it descend so copiously? Who is it that has the leisure to devote himself, with such abandoned glee, to making these things happen?"