A book has just arrived on my desk. This is not unusual. Books arrive on my desk every day. However, this one is simply addressed to the ‘Book Review Editor’ and I can as yet find no home for it and no-one who is expecting it.Looking at the book I have discovered it is by Roger Scruton and is called ‘Culture Counts’. It says on the back “Boldly standing up to today’s nihilisms and debasements of taste, Culture Counts offers a noble and compelling defense of high culture and the centrality of rich aesthetic experience for a full human life”.
Sounds marvellous. Even though I’ll have to find a home for this copy I’m going to make sure I get one of my own.
I think I’m actually starting to believe in fate.
