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, November 4, 2009

Inbound, from the Internet

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If life is what happens in the meantime, I have had a week of living large. We arrived in Paris more than a month ago, but my first fortnig...
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Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Bounded by History

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I've always had a snobbish aversion to the word "historic" as used by American travel agents and local civic boosters. They p...
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Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Cast Your Bread Upon the Waters

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My last effort was more a phenomenon than a real blog posting. I had no computer with me during my recent trip to America, and scant time ...
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Sunday, October 11, 2009

Blogging in extremis, or is that Cleveland?

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This post is destined to be more perfunctory than most. I spent all of yesterday on a flight from Paris to Cleveland, with a tense connecti...
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Wednesday, October 7, 2009

Idiomatic Idiocy

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One of the discomfiting but eventually salutary aspects of temporary expatriation is the feeling of being an immigrant, a stranger in a stra...
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Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Battered, bushed, but blogged in

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From time to time I have encountered web sites at which some frenetic typist, amidst many misspellings and only partially comprehensible ab...
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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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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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