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 19, 2018

Christmas, Hurry!

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  Albrecht Durer, "Holy Family with Three Hares" Christmas is now less than a week away.   T...
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Wednesday, December 12, 2018

A Brief History of X

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    I first became interested in semiotics from the story of Cain and Abel in the Bib...
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Wednesday, December 5, 2018

Past President

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  Augustine somewhere reminds us that all our cultural investments in the ceremonies of death—funerals, memorials, official periods of mo...
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Wednesday, November 28, 2018

Annals of Philanthropy

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  Michael Bloomberg, philanthropist Former Mayor Michael Bloomberg just gave 1.8 billion dollars to his alma mater , Johns Hopkin...
Wednesday, November 21, 2018

Brexit Jitters

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During this past week the question of Brexit—that is, the process by which the British government is proposing to sever its ties with t...
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Wednesday, November 14, 2018

How Do You Like Them Apples?

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Many years ago, in a junk shop near Cowan TN, I came upon a curious item--a small slab of semi-finishe...
Wednesday, November 7, 2018

Road to Xanadu

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I have arrived at a surprising and surprisingly unanticipated stage of intellectual life that might be summarized in the following ...
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John V. Fleming
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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