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, August 6, 2014

A Few Credits Shy

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  Senator John Walsh It would be an exaggeration to say that the week’s news has consisted of nothing but major disasters.   S...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014

Past and Present

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What is archaeological is not necessarily ancient.   I learned that years ago on our farmstead in the Arkansas Ozarks.   That are...
Wednesday, July 23, 2014

Jam Session

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  1. Find a bush I try to convince myself that the explanation lies in a rural childhood, with all its harvesting and milking...
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Wednesday, July 16, 2014

Trivial Pursuits?

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Others mistrust and say, "But time escapes:   Live now or never!" He said, "What's time? Leave Now for dogs ...
Wednesday, July 9, 2014

Declaration

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Many of my weekly essays arise from the confluence of fortuitous circumstances.   Three and a half have come together this week. ...
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Wednesday, July 2, 2014

The Blur of Travel

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I believe that it was the Prussian military theoretician Clausewitz who introduced the idea of “the fog of war,” a really fine phr...
Tuesday, June 24, 2014

Vaut-la-Visite

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 Nicolas Fouquet (1615-1680), on a good day  Most people spend much of their lives working, yet fewer things are more diffi...
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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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