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, September 23, 2009

The Power of Procrastination

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The main excitement of this Wednesday in my house is the looming fact next Wednesday, when we shall be in Paris recovering from the exhaust...
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Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Of pigs and prodigals

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I have just finished a quick lunch after a pleasingly varied five-hour drive from Hamilton, New York, home to Colgate University, to Princet...
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Sunday, September 13, 2009

Not with a Blog, but a Twitter

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As I begin to get some sense of an incipient and as yet inchoate readership for “Gladly Lerne”, I sense also the need to do some long-range ...
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Monday, September 7, 2009

A Certifiable Larynx

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If like me you are primarily dependent upon the New York Times for your political information you may have been unaware of the presence of ...
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Friday, August 28, 2009

Still Digesting

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In a desperate attempt to increase the readership of my blog I have taken to reading it assiduously myself. Reading my own prose as though...
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Thursday, August 20, 2009

Difficult to Digest

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My number one son Richard, the formidable b logmeister of “ A Brooklynite on the Ice ,” drew my attention to what he thought may be a blog...
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Sunday, August 9, 2009

Gold for Geezers

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ABOVE the oracular cave at Delphi, we are told, was inscribed the fundamental atom, or perhaps even quark, of all wisdom: NOSCE TEIPSUM , “...
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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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