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, September 17, 2014

Matila Ghyka

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 Matila Ghyka (1881-1965) in full military/diplomatic rig             Individual lives, like all of history, have a tendency...
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Wednesday, September 10, 2014

Member of the Wedding

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            There is much to worry about these days, so that occasions for unalloyed rejoicing are to be fully indulged.   I...
Wednesday, September 3, 2014

Rogue Scholars (II)

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  Crime, and... In theory the most democratic land on earth should be the “Republic of Letters,” as the learned men of the eighte...
Wednesday, August 27, 2014

Orwellian Hurlyburly

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            I notice in my reading of contemporary writers, especially journalists, the frequent appearance of the adjective O...
Wednesday, August 20, 2014

Rogue Scholars (I)

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            When we speak of the “criminal classes” we ordinarily include college faculties only by way of metaphor, but the erudite ...
Wednesday, August 13, 2014

Picked Up from the Grapevine

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Cora and Lulu, in Concord One of the nicer biblical prophecies of the Peaceable Kingdom, from Micah, proclaims that “they shal...
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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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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