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, June 24, 2015

Goodbye, Old Paint

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    Parting is such sweet sorrow...                       Forty, maybe even fifty years ago I heard a Country and Western song ...
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Wednesday, June 17, 2015

Bernard Malamud

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            I have resisted increasingly importunate invitations to “monetize” this blog—that is, to license Mr. Google to try t...
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Wednesday, June 10, 2015

God's Retirement

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          In the last couple of weeks God has been prominent in the New York Times , though mainly on account of His increasing a...
Wednesday, June 3, 2015

Testing, testing

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            The trouble with advertising “whatever comes into my mind” as the subject matter of my blog is that episod...
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Wednesday, May 27, 2015

The Graduate

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On My 21 st our wonderful eldest granddaughter, Sophia Elizabeth Fleming-Benite, received the degree of Bachelor of Arts from th...
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Wednesday, May 20, 2015

On Capital Punishment

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              It is probably attributable to mere cultural habit that despite the many conveniences of on-line reading I still prefer t...
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Wednesday, May 13, 2015

Proverbial Paucity

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One of the special pleasures of living in an academic community is that the most ordinary of daily experiences often become inform...
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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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