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, June 9, 2010

Hands across the Water

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I am past the midpoint of my brief sojourn in Paris. The last week went by in a blur. Of such blurs there are several genres: the travel...
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Wednesday, June 2, 2010

Scholar Gypsy

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Nil admirari prope res est una, Numici, solaque quae possit facere et seruare beatum. Horace, Epist . I, vi. ...
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Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Bloguiste en vacances

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Emergent circumstances now emerge, leaving me in search of the right analogy. I find it, naturally, in academic life. Oxf...
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Wednesday, May 19, 2010

History Is For the Birds

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"My heart in hiding stirred for a bird"....But what bird? I spent a rather wakeful night in New York, made somewhat more tolerabl...
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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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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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