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, January 16, 2019

Princeton in the Great Fear

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Immediately following the storming of the Bastille in July of 1789 there spread throughout vast areas of rural France a mass delusi...
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Wednesday, January 9, 2019

These Childish Things

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Not too long ago I found at the back of a drawer filled with miscellaneous junk one of my old pocketknives.   I hadn’t seen it, or ...
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Wednesday, January 2, 2019

Abandoned Women

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Dido and Aeneas, alfresco in Rome Over the holidays I watched one of the free Netflix offerings, “The Little Hours,” which is...
Wednesday, December 26, 2018

Christmas with Yuri and Lara

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This year’s family Christmas preparations involved troop movements and contingency planning at a degree of com...
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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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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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