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The Gospel According to Malfew SeklewWith Additional Writings By and About Sirfessor Wilkesbarre.Introduction by Trevor Blake 280 pages, $15.95 There is only one Malfew Seklew and Sirfessor Wilkesbarre is His Prophet. The polemical writings by and about Sirfessor Wilkesbarre, a Chicago radical, social aristocrat and egoist superman of the early 20th Century. Companion of Ragnar Redbeard, frequenter of the Dil Pickle Club, and a man too magnificent for one moniker, Fred Wilkes (1864 – 1930) traversed in his mind through socialism into a sardonic Nietzschean egoism as he made his way in the flesh from England to Chicago and New York. […]