Hayter I first heard of Vanoc II from a newspaper clipping laid into a second-hand copy of The Ego and His Own by Max Stirner (New York: Modern Library 1919). To read that newspaper clipping, click here. In tracking down the source of that newspaper clipping I learned about an interesting character who spent a […]
I first heard of Vanoc II from a newspaper clipping laid into a second-hand copy of The Ego and His Own by Max Stirner (New York: Modern Library 1919). Vanoc II’s view is based on the irrefutable argument that if we all got along, we’d all get along. In researching Vanoc II I found no […]
Maurice Cranston (1920 – 1993) was an English philosopher. He was a conscientious objector as a young man and a supporter of Margret Thatcher as an adult. His books include Politics and Ethics, The New Left and Tomorrow We’ll Be Sober. L. A. Rollins quotes Cranston in The Myth of Natural Rights (Port Townsend: Loompanics […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
In Fight Club 2 by Chuck Palahniuk (Number 5, September 23 2015) we see Mary Richardson attacking a painting with a meat cleaver. Richardson was known by Dora Marsden, and appeared in Dora’s publications. Richardson was with Emily Davison when she stepped onto the racetrack in front of King George’s horse on June 4 1913. […]
Mark Twain had a few words on irreverence to the crowd in the pursuit of what is sacred to the self: Irreverence. The quality or condition of irreverence toward God and sacred things. What does the Hindu say? He says it is correct. He says irreverence is lack of respect for Vishnu, and Brahma, and […]
