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, July 24, 2019

The Arkansas Toothpick Test

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Earlier in the year, the legislature of my home state passed a resolution making it official.   The Bowie knife is the ...
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Wednesday, July 17, 2019

Stamp-ede

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         Some raw materials           Like most of the other good things in my life, my involvement with the “arts of the book”...
Tuesday, July 9, 2019

Away from My Desk

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When I was a student at Oxford so many years ago, all undergraduate teaching in the Arts was conducted by the magnificently inefficient “...
Wednesday, July 3, 2019

Butler Park

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I have just returned from a medically mandated mile’s stroll through the min-paradise across the street from my house, and I am think...
Wednesday, June 26, 2019

The Little Foxes

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Many years ago, knocking around in my pickup truck, I came upon some abandoned garden allotments that seem once to have been a part...
Wednesday, June 19, 2019

One Father's Fathers Day

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In my birth family the celebration of Mothers Day was distinctly muted, and Fathers Day got no notice whatsoever.   No specific and coher...
Wednesday, June 12, 2019

A Short Story by John O'Hara

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John O'Hara (1905-1970) The short story is not an American invention, but American writers at least since the time of Poe ha...
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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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