At 10.55 am, the time is noted in my sketchbook, we have a dog
attack. We are cycling along quietly when suddenly we are nearly
savaged. It's a tiny little beast about ten inches long. One of
those Yorkshire Terrier type dogs, all fluff and teeth...You can
see it think it's the Red Baron; diving out of the sun, straight
for our ankles...We imagine it swaggering back to its look - out
point thinking, 'Frightened those dozy bastards...Pair of scruffy
looking, bare legged, silly old farts in daft helmets.' Two old
friends from Trinity College, Dublin - one a retired accountant
living in Wiltshire, the other a professor of salmon biology in
Newfoundland - decide to ride their bikes round the coast of
Ireland. Fifty years before, they had rowed together in the
university crew; now, more decrepit, they spend their days
meandering through the Irish countryside. As they travel they talk,
and as they talk like only old friends can, their conversations
reflect their own unique experience - the distillation of two
lives, spent in separate continents, concerned with different
priorities, yet unified by their past. Their saga, with many
picaresque adventures along the way, evolves into something much
more. Talking together about what they find - the plight of the
salmon, the troubles in Ulster, their growing sense of the natural
world being destroyed by the inability of philosophy to keep
abreast with the constant flux of scientific discovery - they
stumble upon a theory which could solve what has baffled everybody
since Darwin: How morality evolved? Dual Nature Theory explains
just that! It also accounts for evil and if properly understood,
might allow human beings, finally, to cooperate in solving many of
the ecological, political and economic problems which challenge the
human race.
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