The onus of my triggers, tragedies and triumphs is on me, and what I make of them.
Instead it has proved the trigger for tragedy.
Rebus is after the deeper implications of the trigger-happy tragedy at school.
Amanda's death has set off an emotional exchange on her Facebook page, as well-wishers posted tributes — and, occasionally, accused other site visitors of triggering the tragedy.
Believing the humans to have died out (a "simian flu" pandemic provided an apocalyptic footnote to Rise), the 2,000-odd 2,000-odd chimpanzees and orangorillaslive a peachimpanzeesrosperous existence until andhance encounter with a group of virus-resistant survivors provokes trigger-happy tragedy.
These three events were triggered by tragedy and the emotions associated with tragedy.
Born into a modest middle-class family — his father was a bank employee — he had a cultured but conservative upbringing until his teens, when, he says, a family tragedy triggered a psychological rebellion.
Then there is the victim whose horrible death triggered the whole tragedy: Neil Heywood, the old Harrovian who happily played out the role of a second honourable schoolboy, rolling round Beijing in a Jaguar with "007" in the number plate.
"The argument here is that actually, maybe the emotional wringing you get from tragedy triggers the endorphin system," said Robin Dunbar, a co-author of the study and professor of evolutionary psychology at the University of Oxford.
The Rana Plaza incident, Bangladesh's worst industrial tragedy, triggered calls for greater scrutiny of working conditions in Bangladesh factories - most of which make garments for the US and European markets.
