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, May 17, 2017

Insights into Health Care

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            Even occasional readers of this blog will be aware of its improvisational nature.   I am often constrained—mainly by ignobl...
Wednesday, May 10, 2017

Chloƫ and Hector

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  basking in the sun One summer’s day about three years ago I was prospecting for a few nicely squared field stones in a remote...
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Wednesday, May 3, 2017

Philosophical, in Philadelphia

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  Chaucer directed his wonderful poem Troilus and Criseyde to two of his admired friends: the trilingual poet John Gower and Ralph S...
Wednesday, April 26, 2017

My Week With Conrad

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Joseph Conrad (18 57 -192 4 )             Last week we drove to New Haven, where we became part of a small, surprise dinner party...
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Wednesday, April 19, 2017

Origen of Alexandria

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            We had an excellent though more than usually exhausting Easter Festival.   The beautiful, protracted Vigil service began in...
Wednesday, April 12, 2017

Ascent of Mont Ventoux

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Mont Ventoux Mont Ventoux, nicknamed the “Giant of Provence,” is a big mountain in a part of the south of France where it seems...
Wednesday, April 5, 2017

Nice Guy Finishes First

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Jim Magnuson The years bridging the Sixties and the Seventies, which were turbulent ones on many American college campuses, we...
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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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