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Be warned! The far-ranging notes and essays of Sweet Marjoram are addictive. Once I began reading, I couldn't stop. I wanted more of Henry's wit and wisdom, his dazzling, surprising juxtapositions. I wanted to see him keep making the familiar new, and the strange familiar. Whether he's writing about folly or time or food or meat or envy or appetite, Henry has a gift for making his reader see the world afresh. A delightful and highly original collection. --Margot Livesey

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True wisdom and beauty, in a time when we dearly need both. --Eileen Pollack, author of The Bible of Dirty Jokes One could place this book, so different from its contemporaries, in the dive-in-get-wet tradition begun by Montaigne: choose a subject as your starting point and then follow where your musings take you. But I am reminded of another French thinker as well, the philosopher of the imagination Gaston Bachelard, who reminded us that Words dream. In Sweet Marjoram, DeWitt Henry leans in close, divines those dreams, follows their lyrical and associative reasoning, and in his precise and luminous prose, maps our contemporary consciousness, noting our psychic landmarks, our moral architecture, the roads we take to the things that matter. --Richard Hoffman, author of Half the House and Love & Fury Be warned! The far-ranging notes and essays of Sweet Marjoram are addictive. Once I began reading, I couldn't stop. I wanted more of Henry's wit and wisdom, his dazzling, surprising juxtapositions. I wanted to see him keep making the familiar new, and the strange familiar. Whether he's writing about folly or time or food or meat or envy or appetite, Henry has a gift for making his reader see the world afresh. A delightful and highly original collection. --Margot Livesey, author of Mercury and The Hidden Machinery In case anyone is still wondering about the accrued benefits of a lifetime's reading, teaching, viewing and thinking, DeWitt Henry's Sweet Marjoram offers the spirited and enjoyable answer. A Shakespearean breadth of interest subjected to a steady inquiring pressure--the reader finds aphorisms for living on every page. --Sven Birkerts, author of Changing the Subject: Art and Attention in the Internet Age This book is a tasting. Taste a glass of wine and you discover aromas and flavors. Taste a pastry dipped in tea and you may lose yourself in a flood of memories. Open this book, pore over it, dip into it, and you do both with words and ideas: every page wreaths your mind in images, imaginings, allusions, illusions, and recollections. --James Harbeck, blogger at Sesquiotica and author of Confessions of a Word Lush

"True wisdom and beauty, in a time when we dearly need both. --Eileen Pollack, author of The Bible of Dirty Jokes One could place this book, so different from its contemporaries, in the dive-in-get-wet tradition begun by Montaigne: choose a subject as your starting point and then follow where your musings take you. But I am reminded of another French thinker as well, the philosopher of the imagination Gaston Bachelard, who reminded us that ""Words dream."" In Sweet Marjoram, DeWitt Henry leans in close, divines those dreams, follows their lyrical and associative reasoning, and in his precise and luminous prose, maps our contemporary consciousness, noting our psychic landmarks, our moral architecture, the roads we take to the things that matter. --Richard Hoffman, author of Half the House and Love & Fury Be warned! The far-ranging notes and essays of Sweet Marjoram are addictive. Once I began reading, I couldn't stop. I wanted more of Henry's wit and wisdom, his dazzling, surprising juxtapositions. I wanted to see him keep making the familiar new, and the strange familiar. Whether he's writing about folly or time or food or meat or envy or appetite, Henry has a gift for making his reader see the world afresh. A delightful and highly original collection. --Margot Livesey, author of Mercury and The Hidden Machinery In case anyone is still wondering about the accrued benefits of a lifetime's reading, teaching, viewing and thinking, DeWitt Henry's Sweet Marjoram offers the spirited and enjoyable answer. A Shakespearean breadth of interest subjected to a steady inquiring pressure--the reader finds aphorisms for living on every page. --Sven Birkerts, author of Changing the Subject: Art and Attention in the Internet Age This book is a tasting. Taste a glass of wine and you discover aromas and flavors. Taste a pastry dipped in tea and you may lose yourself in a flood of memories. Open this book, pore over it, dip into it, and you do both with words and ideas: every page wreaths your mind in images, imaginings, allusions, illusions, and recollections. --James Harbeck, blogger at Sesquiotica and author of Confessions of a Word Lush"

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