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 9, 2011

Shifting Signifiers, or Signs of the Times

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Omnis doctrina vel res vel signa est, sed res per signa discuntur.                         Augustine   De Doctrina Christiniana At the b...
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Tuesday, November 1, 2011

An Upside to the Medicare Crisis

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I believe that most of my students are younger than I am.  Ordinarily that observation would be of a banality so oppressive as to for...
Tuesday, October 25, 2011

A Beautiful Tale of Love and Death

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            We just got back from a quick trip to the opera—Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor  at the Lyric Theater in Chicago.  Occasi...
Tuesday, October 18, 2011

De-Bard

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  Roland Emmerich: a lean and hungry look, with a clear focus on the box office My dear old Dad had a number of really corny jokes ...
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Wednesday, October 5, 2011

The Class War

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We must deny before God and man that one’s attitude towards men may be determined solely by considering them as representatives of this...
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Tuesday, September 27, 2011

East-Anglian Church-Crawl

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 Cansell Grove Farmhouse, Rattlesden, Suffolk The homeward flight to America, like the outbound flight two weeks earlier, was surpri...
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Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Let the Deed Shaw

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            Oxford failed me, but not Cambridge.  We are now with the wonderful Dignam family (Elizabeth being Joan's niece), a 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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