She also asked about normal post-surgery recovery time and procedure times, and he had been very reassuring.
They’d ended up talking for a very long time about all sorts of things, which he seemed to sense she’d been in need of.
He’d said something about not over-googling health symptoms.
And that had led to them talking about social media – he believed that the more people were connected on social media, the lonelier society became.
“That’s why everyone hates each other nowadays,” he reckoned.
“Because they are overloaded with non-friend friends. Ever heard about Dunbar’s number?”
And then he had told her about a man called Roger Dunbar at Oxford University,
who had discovered that human beings were wired to know only a hundred and fifty people,
as that was the average size of hunter-gatherer communities.
“And the Domesday Book,” Ash had told her, under the stark lighting of the hospital canteen,
“if you look at the Domesday Book, the average size of an English community at that time was a hundred and fifty people.
Except in Kent. Where it was a hundred people. I’m from Kent. We have anti-social DNA.”
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