Many thanks to William D., the volunteer that transcribed the tables of contents for the issues we have, now featured on The Clarion (1932) page. Reproduced below is one of the known Seklew pieces. LAUGHTER By MALFEW SEKLEW as published in The Clarion | Vol. I – Nos. 9-10. | May-June 1934 ‘One inch of joy surmounts […]
We have only a partial knowledge of the contents of the egoist influenced journal The Clarion, but sought out what we could because two of our main Union Members are featured: Malfew Seklew and Benjamin DeCasseres. Reproduced below is one of the known Seklew pieces. GEMS OF THOUGHT By MALFEW SEKLEW as published in […]
One of the titles included in our list of Journals is The Clarion (1932). I was unfamiliar with it (and most of the titles we discovered!), but thanks to the Labadie Collection, we have a sampling of the contents from a few issues. We will be taking this information and more to create a dedicated […]
In The Eagle & The Serpent for June 1900 (Volume 1, Number 10) we read that the “American address” for purchasing egoist materials was “V. F. Gordon, 525, West Capitol Ave., Springfield, Illinois, U.S.A.” And just who might V. F. Gordon be? She might be the author of the song My Golden Star… … as […]
The egoist journal The Eagle and The Serpent replied to a letter from one M. Wilkebarre in their Volume 1 Number 9 (October 15th, 1899)… M. WILKESBARRE. – The hymn you justly admire was obviously written in a very cheap lodging house or a steerage-steamer. I, too, have known that bed whereon the martyr, in […]
Jonathan Rée wrote an article titled “Antichrist” for The New Humanist in November 2010. In it is one of the few modern references to The Eagle and the Serpent (1898) and some of our egoists, such as John Basil Barnhill. The young Nietzcheans did not hesitate to identify Nietzsche himself with the Übermensch – or […]
New York Times, March 19 1898, “Books and Authors: Notes of Forthcoming and Recent Publications” (page BR-128): London is to have a three-penny weekly journal devoted to the philosophy of life as enunciated by Nietzsche, Emerson, Thoreau, Goethe, and Spencer. It is to be entitled “The Eagle and the Serpent,” and will be published by […]
From “The Phoenix Nest,” a column by William Rose Benet appearing in the April 26 1947 edition of The Saturday Review (page 36)… Mark Twain relates in one of his stories, the furore up in Heaven when an obscure tailor, Billings by name, from somewhere in Tennessee, arrives in the Celestial realm. Shakespeare is proud […]
The largest task at hand is getting the mountain of information I already have online in a logical way that’s pleasant to look at. There are a ton of great resources, but they often designed in a way that is incredibly annoying to try to read, or don’t make any sense. There is also a […]
Some words are used in speech before they get written down, and early on in being written down they are spelled in many ways before they settle on a single spellings. The music we call jazz was also spelled jaz, jas, and jass early on. The Dil Pickle Club of Chicago (where Sirfessor Malfew Seklew often […]
