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, November 29, 2023

The Kennedy Assassination

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    This blog has not devoted much attention to historical anniversaries, but I must make an exception for one just past—t...
Wednesday, November 22, 2023

Collecting and Recollecing

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    On Sunday mornings Joan reads aloud the collect of the day at the breakfast table.   This week began with one of my...
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Wednesday, November 15, 2023

Special Aups

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                                          Vaduz Aups   A few subjects of this essay will be our daughter Katherine’s travel itineraries, the...
Wednesday, November 8, 2023

History and Oblivion

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  This will be a very brief essay.   No essay at all, really, more like a sad mini-meditation on the ambiguities of histor...
Wednesday, November 1, 2023

Autumn Chill

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  Autumn, serious autumn, arrived here on Friday.   By “serious autumn” I perhaps mean “ambivalent autumn,” Keats’s season of mellow fruitf...
Wednesday, October 25, 2023

Constitutional Review

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        For many reasons, I am loath to write on political topics.   The chief reason is that I am not an expert on polit...
Wednesday, October 18, 2023

Sit and Weep

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  After a week of screaming headlines and an inundation of appalling, indeed frightening newspaper articles, gruesome phot...
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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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