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, September 19, 2018

Tabula Rasa

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Nature or nurture?   The vexed question thus posed in shorthand was thorny enough even before it became supercharged by...
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Wednesday, September 12, 2018

Haitian Art

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          A hundred years ago and more the Pioneer Works   in Brooklyn’s Red Hook district housed a massive heavy metal industria...
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Monday, September 3, 2018

Benefit of Clergy (With and Without)

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Perhaps if I begin this time with the digression—get it out of the way early, so to speak--my eventual topic may emerge more clearly. ...
Wednesday, August 29, 2018

The Third Man

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T. S. Eliot I got to thinking about the third man.   What third man? you might ask, and that’s the whole point.   There are so...
Wednesday, August 22, 2018

Shiten Shepherds

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The Good Shepherd (4th century) In a fairly recent post, in which I tried to identify one important source of our political mal...
Wednesday, August 15, 2018

Infantile Laughter

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The MontrĂ©alers In America the aging process has been minutely studied by the commercial sector.   It can be documented quite acc...
Wednesday, August 8, 2018

Annals of Contemporary Verse

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I hope that my indulgent readers can believe that my intentions for this week’s essay were good.   I had identified a topic (category: ...
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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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