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, July 31, 2013

Out of Synch

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When the reviewer of my new book for the Washington Post began by invoking Jung’s theory of “synchronicity” I had an uneasy fe...
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Wednesday, July 24, 2013

Lady Justice Coloring Book

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(crayons sold separately) I did not intend to write an essay about Trayvon Martin and/ or George Zimmerman.   To say the same thi...
Wednesday, July 17, 2013

Dead Letter Scholarship

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    Where great ideas go to die Most people are probably familiar with the alliterative advice given to fledgling professors: ...
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Wednesday, July 10, 2013

Tale of Two Suppers

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“Christ was the word that spake it, He took the bread and he brake it; And what the word did make it; That I believe, and take i...
Wednesday, July 3, 2013

Greater and Lesser Lights

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  Very conveniently the climate of the Celanese monsoons has arrived with us in central New Jersey, making re-entry following...
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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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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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