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 15, 2021

Amazon or Adamastor?

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                We have been discovering various silver linings around the dark clouds of the Pandemic, such as the appare...
Wednesday, December 8, 2021

Impressive

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                        991                                   .918       Two vaguely similar numbers—991 and .918—coale...
Wednesday, December 1, 2021

Bibliomancy

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                                                               Benozzo Gozzoli, "Tolle, Lege"                 ...
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Wednesday, November 24, 2021

Where Ignorant Armies Clash by Night

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                One of the world’s greatest possible book titles was pre-empted by the humanist poet Francis Petrarch ...
Wednesday, November 17, 2021

University of Austin

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                Recently a group of academics and journalists announced the foundation of a new American university, the...
Wednesday, November 10, 2021

Crowds and Castastrophe

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               One of the old saws needing serious qualification is the one about safety in numbers.   The dangers present...
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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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