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, February 15, 2012

XLII

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“Ultimate Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, The Universe, and Everything,”  Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to t...
Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Lessons from the Fun House

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The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth.   Ecclesiastes, 7:4. ...
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Wednesday, February 1, 2012

For Better or for Worse

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  GOOD  In pious times, e're priest-craft did begin / before polygamy was made a sin... I am in the final push in the preparation...
Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Isidore of Seville and the Dog Whistle

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            I am an alleged expert in allegory —a literary genre that advances its fiction beneath a dark conceit.  There are...
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Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Four Pages of Family History

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Over the holiday season the Grim Reaper was busy in my little corner. Just around Christmas my cousin Edie Kellem died in Mountain ...
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Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Leper Leads Calais!

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Your Blue Jays is to be found sitting before his machine playing with his favorite Christmas present, 2 Rick his voice recogn...
Wednesday, January 4, 2012

The Auld and the Yaung

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 Gilded youth see the New Year in (New York, 2012) Events that occur but once a year–-birthdays and wedding anniversaries being the mo...
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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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