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 18, 2009

Dutch Painting Triathlon

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It has been a week of major developments in the Fifteenth Arrondissement, as we prosecuted a cultural triathlon that leaves me nearly too ex...
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Thursday, November 12, 2009

Addendum: "The Venetian Rivals"

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Here is a brief addendum to yesterday's post. A young friend in Princeton, James Wilentz, supervises the very classy site "Old Mas...
Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Golden Oldies of Erudition

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When my daughter made a short visit to our apartment the other day, I noted that her first and instinctive act was a furtive check of the bo...
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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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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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