【文章內(nèi)容簡(jiǎn)介】 ore I sleep,　And miles to go before I sleep. 　——　Robert Frost 　 　13Winston Churchill’s AddressVictory in spite of terror, victory, however long and hard the road maybe, for without victory there is no survival.　We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and the oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills。 we shall never surrender...　14SummerI chanced to rise very early one particular morning this summer, and took a walk into the country to divert myself among the fields and meadows, while the green was new, and the flowers in their bloom. As at this season of the year every lane is a beautiful walk, and every hedge full of nosegays, I lost myself, with a great deal of pleasure, among several thickets and bushes that were filled with a great variety of birds, and an agreeable confusion of notes, which formed the pleasantest scene in the world to one who had passed a whole winter in noise and smoke. The freshness of the dews that lay upon everything about me, with the cool breath of the morning, which inspired the birds with so many delightful instincts, created in me the same kind of animal pleasure, and made my heart overflow with such secret emotions of joy and satisfaction as are not to be described or accounted for. 　—Joseph Addison, Tulips 　15How to Be HappyAt the airport bookstore, there are only about a dozen free standing shelves of books. It’s Darwinian selection at its most brutal: only the most popular authors, the newest novels, and the most recognizable classics survive. You won’t find the lesserknown works of Oscar Wilde or Voltaire or even Hemingway — there isn’t space for them. Jane Austen makes only the briefest appearance, and Edgar Allen Poe shows his face only at Halloween. There are no collections of poetry beyond Dr. Seuss. There is, however, a whole rack of selfhelp books. 　Americans are obsessed with making ourselves better, smarter, thinner. You can buy books to improve your vocabulary. You can devour as tack of books that will teach you to work more efficiently, more ruthlessly, and claw your way to the top — and then you can read books on how to stop and smell the roses and enjoy your life more fully. There are even books that will teach you how to organize your closets. All of these things dance around the essential truth: we want to behappy. We want to be loved. We want to find meaning in our lives and feel that our contributions make a difference. 　This, then, is the Rusty Brain Guide: How To Be Happy. 　◆ Eat more cookies. Abstaining from a single cookie isn’t going to make you look svelte and toned. Go on, eat some cookies. I remend the double chocolate ones with chocolate chips inside. 　◆ Sing. In your car. In elevators. At the mall, especially at Crate amp。Barrel and Pottery Barn. In hospital corridors. Before important client meetings. When people give you that patronizing look, wink at them. 　◆ Make Popsicles. 　◆ Stay home on the weekend and disconnect your phone. 　◆ Bring a plastic straw to a fancy restaurant. Make loud gurgling sounds when you get to the bottom as you attempt to drink every last molecule of diet Coke. 　◆ Order the stuff on the menu that you’ve never heard of—like GkaengCheud Bplah Meuk Yad Sai (Stuffed Squid Soup with Napa Cabbage orSquash). 　◆ Talk to strangers. 　◆ Collect something weird that isn’t expensive but is relatively hardtofind. 　◆ Wear odd hats in public places. 　◆ Amass a jar of coins. Bury them in your back yard. Draw a treasuremap and give it to a friend. 　◆ Walk to the park near your house. Do some somersaults. When was the last time you did a somersault, anyway? 　◆ Eat pickles out of the jar. 　◆ Build a Web site and write your own Rusty Brain column. 　◆ Spend a day by yourself. Leave your cell phone at home. Wander the streets, muttering to yourself and occasionally disagreeing with what you’ve just muttered. 　◆ Buy a puppy. Name it Charo. 　◆ Get your teeth capped. Move to Hollywood. Bee a star. (Isn’t that what you’ve been dreaming about anyway?) 　◆ Throw a surprise birthday party for a friend. Invite lots of people. Make sure that your friend’s actual birthday is nowhere near the date of the party. 　◆ Belch in public. Then sigh contently. 　◆ Quit your worthless job and dedicate your life to the study of the Moroccan flute. 　◆ Fly a kite. 　◆ Stop wasting your life with the Moroccan flute and get a real job. 　◆ Volunteer at your library, or church, or your local soup kitchen, or Habitat for Humanity. 　◆ Wear clothes so ratty that you are often mistaken for one of the“needy.” 　◆ Use the word “Jonesing” as often as possible. As in, “Man, I’m Jonesin’ for some homemade Popsicles.” Studies have shown this will make y