Publication and Descartes…

It’s a strange time as you reach one month till pub date. Will people like the book? Will they loathe it? Will it sell, or will it, as Descartes put it, in a phrase that has always haunted me, ‘fall dead-born from the press, without reaching such distinction as even to excite a murmur among the zealots’? Or will it all be somewhere in between? The next few weeks will give some clues; the next few months, some answers….