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, October 29, 2014

Texting Women

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  Richard de Fournival, a learned French author of the fourteenth century, says in the preface to one of his works that there ar...
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Wednesday, October 22, 2014

On the Death of David Greenglass

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Ethel Rosenberg with her brother, David Greenglass, in better days David Greenglass died last summer at the age of 92, but the ...
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Wednesday, October 15, 2014

Backwoods Ingenuity

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I don’t watch much television per se , not enough certainly to justify my monthly cable bill; but I do catch up with certain thi...
Wednesday, October 8, 2014

From the Holy Mountain

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                   I recently signed a contract with the Oxford University Press to compile a little book to be called A Cabinet ...
Wednesday, October 1, 2014

Report from the Old Country

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            We arrived in Newark from London in late afternoon on Monday, temporarily wilted from the rigors of the cattle car aspect...
Thursday, September 25, 2014

Bloguiste in abeyance...

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...temporarily stranded in pre~electronic community in the Kent hinterland.  But like the Sabbath, blogging was made for man, and not the o...
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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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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