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, October 24, 2018

Equine and Bovine

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William Ranney, Washington at the Battle of Princeton Some months ago my friend John Raimo, a young historian and an indefatigabl...
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Wednesday, October 17, 2018

Revelling

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Yesterday, finally, after more than a fortnight of hard time, my family was able to spring me from the hospital.   Purity and sim...
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Wednesday, October 10, 2018

The River and the Ocean

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I think that it is somewhere in Freud’s correspondence that he writes about the “oceanic feeling”, a vague but comforting perception of uni...
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Wednesday, October 3, 2018

Aegrotat

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Wednesday, September 26, 2018

Confirmation Bias Festival

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We say that “seeing is believing”.   But there are far too many times when, in fact, “believing is seeing”—that is, when our interpre...
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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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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