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 15, 2016

Finding a Good Book

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                       My blog essays vary considerably in their lack of ambition, but mainly readers get a snapshot of my Tues...
Wednesday, June 8, 2016

Gilded Cages

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a ransomer arrives at the sponging-house ( Vanity Fair , vol. 2, cap. xviii) A fabulously wealthy Middle Eastern gold merchant, R...
Wednesday, June 1, 2016

Adolf Trump?

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There was what I thought a very good article in yesterday’s Times , “ The West’s Weimar Moment ” by Jochen Bittner, one of the editors ...
Wednesday, May 25, 2016

Absolutely Constitutional

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" A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State , the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall...
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Wednesday, May 18, 2016

Typical Ambiguities

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This has been a busy week that proved yet again, as though it might still need proving, the relentlessness of life, which shows sc...
Wednesday, May 11, 2016

On the Loose

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            I am certain to have mentioned in the past, and perhaps on more than one occasion, a wonderful old book by Richard Ch...
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Wednesday, May 4, 2016

Bathroom Babble

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“If Donald Trump dresses as Hillary Clinton, he still can’t use the little girls’ restroom.”   So said Senator Ted Cruz of the great...
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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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