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 8, 2015

Bernie Rocks

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  Warren VT, 4 July 2015: Senator Sanders in the Ship of State            I have just returned from a delightful family vacat...
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Wednesday, July 1, 2015

Vacation

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one impulse from a vernal wood... There is a difference between a nuclear family and a nuclear-powered one.   We have a brood of...
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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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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