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 16, 2018

Adulteration of the Adult

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   "The Seven Ages of Man" by William Mulready (1838) I suspect that like many other underemployed Americans I have ...
Sunday, May 6, 2018

Blue & Gray in Black & White

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  I am posting this essay a bit early, as circumstances seem unlikely to allow me to keep to the more usual schedule.   So ...
Wednesday, May 2, 2018

Schools of Eccentricity

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I do not know whether sociologists have noted and explained the declining number of true eccentrics among us, or the decline of social ...
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Wednesday, April 25, 2018

and All the Other Stars

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Bernard's vision of the Virgin: fra Lippo Lippi Very often the subjects of these little essays published on a ...
Wednesday, April 18, 2018

Immigration Lottery

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  Traditional Mexican "LoterĂ­a" Images Tomorrow night I hope to make my way to Cooper Square in Manhattan, where o...
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Wednesday, April 11, 2018

Minerva and the Dog

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One day during the Easter holiday I watched my youngest granddaughter as, seated on the carpet, she finished the assembly of a ...
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Wednesday, April 4, 2018

An Old Song

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I am eleven years into retirement.   That’s long enough to allow me to make a provisional judgment of how things are going.   I...
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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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