A Cynics Primer: B-C-D

Catching up again:

July 22: Poet Stephen Vincent Benet was born July 22, 1898. He wrote:

We do not fight for the real but for the shadows we make;
A flag is a piece of cloth and a words is a sound.



July 23: American mystery writer Raymond Chandler (pictured above) was born July 23, 1880. He wrote:

"Television is just one more facet of that considerable segment of our society that never had any standard but the soft buck." And also:

"It is pretty obvious that the debasement of the human mind caused by a constant flow of fraudulent advertising is no trivial thing. There is more than one way to conquer a country."



For more on Chandler, visit Today in Farewells

July 24: Alexandre Dumas pere was born July 24, 1802.

"Nobody has read everything of Dumas, not even Dumas himself." -- Anonymous.