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, October 13, 2021

Whose Pronouns?

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                                     Lady Grammatica from the Hortus Deliciarum               Professor John McWhorter...
Wednesday, October 6, 2021

A Lot of Parking

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                 Now that I get out and about a bit more, I begin to appreciate the extent to which my old employer, Princeton University, h...
Wednesday, September 29, 2021

Carleton Beals and Populism

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Carleton Beals There are several ways of meeting people quite apart from shaking hands.   You can develop a sense of knowing a speaker, a m...
Wednesday, September 22, 2021

Arc-en-Ciel

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                We returned to America last Friday, landing at Newark just before 5:30 and arriving home shortly after d...
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Wednesday, September 15, 2021

Salernes

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          In premeditating the possibility of posting a blog essay from a rural hideout in southern France, I had anticipated imaginary diff...
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Monday, September 6, 2021

A Temporizing Announcement

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              This is not a blog essay two days early but a temporizing announcement five days late.   We are boarding an ...
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Wednesday, September 1, 2021

Dead Deer

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  My daily walk, which actually does happen on some days, has a variable route along a wooded lakeside and old tow paths a...
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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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