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).

Tuesday, June 25, 2013

A Tooth for a Truth

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Clichéd writing is no doubt sometimes born of the writer’s want of imagination, but it is probably as often the imagination’s necessa...
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Tuesday, June 18, 2013

A Cultural Exchange

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I am determined to mount a post in this first week of our Sri Lankan visit simply to prove that I have not succumbed entirely to the ...
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Wednesday, June 12, 2013

Starting Off with a Bang

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 View from the pier The conspicuously leisurely tenor of last week’s post was already succumbing to pre-packing jitters when ...
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Wednesday, June 5, 2013

Leisure Suits

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Michaelangelo's Rachel and Leah, adorning the tomb of Julius II             Immediately following the Dante seminar...
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Wednesday, May 29, 2013

The Urge to Purge

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            I am writing this essay in the interstices of a busy week, one destined to become busier still with the crescendo of th...
Wednesday, May 22, 2013

Post-Apostrophical

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I dedicate this essay to one of those Copernican moments of spiritual life when a chance epiphany reveals the depths of some modest m...
Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Head Trip

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            I hear that the twenty-first century will belong to biology as the twentieth did to physics.   This is sort of bad...
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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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