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, May 12, 2010

Mr. Micawber, meet the enemy...

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This will be a grumpy, cheerless, puritanical, and visually bleak post. I made the mistake of looking at the morning paper in close proxim...
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Wednesday, May 5, 2010

The Massachusetts Line

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The Prince of Poets: In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king This Wednesday it will mainly be all about last Wednesday when, l...
Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Mixed Messages

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A mixed message I must begin with an important message. Last week’s post was rushed because of unexpected intrusions into m...
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Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Oxford Reunion

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Jesus College, Oxford: my old room was on the ground floor in the corner This weekend past Joan and I attended a “North American Oxford Reun...
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Wednesday, April 14, 2010

The Rightful Duke of Cordova, in Spain

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Effects of the wind in a nearby village Once years ago in England I had to fill out a form on which it was required that in addition to my n...
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Thursday, April 8, 2010

Spring Break

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Yesterday's blog has been temporarily rusticated for technical reasons while the blogger himself is temporarily at an academic conferenc...
Tuesday, April 6, 2010

From Bundren to Bodoni and Back

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The French revolutionaries found it easier to overthrow the political arrangements of the Old Regime than to transform by legislative decree...
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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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