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, May 6, 2020

Read the Virus Away

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Picasso Meekly accepting our assignment among the highest risk group in a pandemic has meant accepting a social isolation so nearl...
Wednesday, April 29, 2020

Masque of the Dread Slime

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So people are doing all sorts of novel things to distract themselves, raise their spirits, avoid thinking about unpleasant realitie...
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Wednesday, April 22, 2020

A Moving Celebration

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Julie Denny, Birthday Lady The national slowdown demanded by the medical situation is fraying a few nerves around here like every...
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Wednesday, April 15, 2020

Virtual Easter

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Noli me tangere (Albrecht Dürer) Come ye faithful, raise the strain Of triumphant gladness, God hath brought his Israel I...
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Wednesday, April 8, 2020

The Queen's Speech

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  Essays beginning with the author’s profession of faith, either political or religious, are often pretty bad, but what I am undertak...
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Wednesday, April 1, 2020

Literary Pests

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In connection with a writing assignment, I have been reading a good deal of “plague literature.”   There is quite a lot of it, and ...
Wednesday, March 25, 2020

The Tissue Issue

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Medieval philosophers and moralists in the Platonic tradition used a strange Latin phrase to describe what they took to be the diso...
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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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