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 18, 2022

Barnes Foundation

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  The constraints of the pandemic have proved trying for us as for everyone else, especially as they have coincided wit...
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Wednesday, May 11, 2022

Supremes in Dubious Battle

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                The week’s domestic news has been dominated by a leak of the draft of a Supreme Court decision in a lega...
Wednesday, May 4, 2022

Ampelopsis brevipendunculata

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 porcelain berry runs amok             Ampelopsis brevipedunculata .   It’s a funny name, but no funnier than most of the ...
Wednesday, April 27, 2022

Death and the Maiden

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                               All art has the power to move us, but there is a particular potency in music .   Augustine’s treatise about m...
Wednesday, April 20, 2022

O. Henry

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              Once or twice a year this space takes a quasi-commercial turn as I encourage all literate Americans to becom...
Wednesday, April 13, 2022

Sticks and Adders

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    pilgrim/prophet: St. James of Compostela               My late close friend Michael Curschmann was one of the greatest...
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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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