Chapter Two, The Coming Of The Triffids , expands the narrative setting, placing the book as a memoir written in the future to explain how civilization collapsed and so much has vanished forever. Normal life from before the triffids has been destroyed in the post-apocalyptic dystopia. Bill Masen’s f...

The moral dilemma that suffuses The Day of the Triffids is what the tiny number of sighted individuals should do about the vast mass of blind people. Our narrator is weighed down by the appalling situation and goes to a bar, where he finds a totally drunk blind man explaining that there is now nothi...

The opening of a story is essential to set the tone and atmosphere. Our narrator describes a “nasty, empty feeling” of horror as he comes to grips with the blinding of the world. As no one responds to his calls he feels the sweat prickle his forehead under the bandages. Something fearful and horribl...

The first sentence of a creative work, known in Latin as the incipit, sets the tone and grabs the interest of the audience. The Day of the Triffids starts its first chapter, titled The End Begins, with “When a day that you happen to know is Wednesday starts off by sounding like Sunday, there is some...

I am reading The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham and would highly recommend it as a Booktalk fiction selection. Written in 1951 and set in London, it is a science fiction classic, presenting a contemporary imaginary dystopia where the whole world is blinded by a meteor storm and aggressive walki...

Does that book cover carbon mining and cloud seeding? If not, she'll have to endure major scolding from down under. :lol: New record high temperatures may be opening some eyes, so that might be a good discussion. I thoroughly disagree with Ms Thunberg on many points, but careful study of her book w...

With my interest in climate change, the most interesting recent major book is the collection of essays introduced by Greta Thunberg - The Climate Book . I have a copy but have not read it yet. https://www.amazon.com/Climate-Book-Facts-Solutions/dp/0593492307? We still have time to change the world. ...

The movement of water from the soil to the tops of trees is facilitated by a process known as transpiration, which is a crucial part of the plant's water cycle. Here's a simplified explanation of how water moves through a tree: Absorption: Tree roots absorb water from the soil through tiny, hair-li...

I suggest The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham, available for free here and with an excellent Wikipedia page here , with something of a pandemic relevance. Another topical option is Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. Free pdf link and Wikipedia page , quite relevant to some campaigns by Governor De ...

the plant's electrical signals spiked at the instant he first thought about burning the leaf. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plant_perception_(paranormal) says The television show MythBusters concluded that the results of related experiments were not repeatable, and that the theory was not true. htt...