Loneliness

dunbar's number

• limit to number of relationships
• observed in primate
• around 150 for humans

roots of loneliness

• Western individualism
• social media
• quality vs quantity
• technology

But even a castaway assumes a future reader, someone who'll come along later and find his bones and his ledger, and learn his fate. Snowman can make no such assumptions: he'll have no future reader, because the Crakers can't read. Any reader he can possibly imagine is in the past.

Now he can feel Oryx floating towards him through the air... If he put out his hand he could touch her; but that would make her vanish

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