Gladly Lerne, Gladly Teche

"Gladly Lerne, Gladly Teche" is the personal web log of John V. Fleming, the Louis W. Fairchild Professor of English and Comparative Literature emeritus at Princeton University. It continues in its title and its spirit his one-time newspaper column in The Daily Princetonian. As a general rule a new post is mounted every Wednesday morning (EST).

Wednesday, August 13, 2025

When Sherlock Met Irene

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   Suddenly, things are moving rather fast in this household.   The change in pace and tenor is easily enough explained.   Melanie and our...
Wednesday, August 6, 2025

The Days of Our Lives

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                                                                    Pages from an old diary             Our words diary and day book (some...
Wednesday, July 30, 2025

Desert of the Goths

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Downtown Eddington, N.M. Our splendid son-in-law Zvi Ben-Dor came down from New York to check up on me, to visit Joan in the rehabilitation ...
Wednesday, July 23, 2025

Shamus in a High Tower

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A fake William Gillette as a fake Sherlock Holmes standing in front of his fake castle on the real Connecticut River               I shall...
Wednesday, July 16, 2025

Rehab Ahead

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Stonebridge   Blog day is upon me, but I have had little time or appetite to think about it.   My wife Joan has been serio...
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Wednesday, July 9, 2025

Lost Treasure

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              This week’s offering is less an essay than an anecdote that will have interest for few, but just at the mome...
Wednesday, July 2, 2025

Genuino Nazzaro, M. D.

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       I write this little essay in memory of my dear friend, Genuino Nazzaro, M.D., who died at his home in Princeton on ...
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John V. Fleming
John V. Fleming, the Louis W. Fairchild Professor of Literature emeritus at Princeton University, retired after a long teaching career in 2006. He and his wife Joan continue to live in Princeton. The Flemings have three adult children, six delightful grandchildren, and lives that mysteriously continue to be busy. He can be reached at jfleming@princeton.edu.
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