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, December 21, 2016

Long Overdue

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Arthur Boycott, FRS (1877-1938) Though difficult to define with precision, the “American dream”, which featured large in political...
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Wednesday, December 14, 2016

Phyllis Billington (1927-2016)

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One paradox of the Christmas season, a kind of social manifestation of the Heisenberg uncertainty principle, is that we are too busy doi...
Wednesday, December 7, 2016

All the News That's Fit to Fake

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good news for the Pope  The American people have been falling for fake news, and that’s a big story among the indignant purve...
Wednesday, November 30, 2016

Leonardo and the Cherry Pickers

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Many of us are disturbed by issues of “social justice”—a term I bracket with quotation marks only because it means different things...
Wednesday, November 23, 2016

Grandad Repatriates a Book

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Ruby with her authorial father (photo credit: K . Dixon, om ni - talented mother) The past week for me was mainly a happy swi...
Wednesday, November 16, 2016

What News?

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The very sad news of the death of the journalist Gwen Ifill, one of the anchors of the PBS News Hour , is in our house a kind of “objectiv...
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Wednesday, November 9, 2016

Jean-François Champollion

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statue of Champollion, courtyard of the Collège de France This morning we have learned the results of the American general ele...
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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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