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 11, 2019

School Daze

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Though hardly less exercised about our current political situation than most of my compatriots, I rarely deal with explicitly polit...
Wednesday, December 4, 2019

The Crown

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Around here it is all about “The Crown”,   the terrific metonymic television series about Queen Elizabeth II recently launched into...
Wednesday, November 27, 2019

The Chess Match of Life

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Bergman's "Seventh Seal   :   Sir Antonius Block (white)-0     G. Reaper (black) +1 Among the many pleasures I anticipa...
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Wednesday, November 20, 2019

Singin' and the Rain

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I have never quite understood boredom, by which I suppose I must mean extended periods of boredom, as opposed to the fleeting experienc...
Wednesday, November 13, 2019

Searching for Jan Valtin

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Retirement is something you have to feel your way into.   It took me about a decade to realize its principal point for my life: that ...
Wednesday, November 6, 2019

Piratical Publishers

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The catch phrase “Publish or perish” is perhaps heard less frequently in the digital age than it once was, but one of the anxieties...
Wednesday, October 30, 2019

A Story by Willa Cather

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  Willa Cather (1873-1947) At last I find occasion for a “trigger warning”.   Though I aim at “general interest” in this blog, I mu...
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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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