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2012美国普林斯顿大学毕业典礼迈克·刘易斯的演讲 /archives/536.html 由博雅源讲演（视频）网收集整理 Dont Eat Fortunes Cookie -- Michael Lewis June 3, 2012 — As Prepared Ive never been up there.Thank you. President Tilghman. Trustees and Friends. Parents of the Class of 2012, wherever they put you. Members of the Class of 2012. Why dont you give yourself a round of applause. So the next time you look around a church and see everyone dressed in black, itll be awkward to do that.But enjoy the moment, Enjoy the moment. Thirty years ago, I sat where you sat. I must have listened to some older person share his life experiences. But I dont remember a word. I couldnt even tell you who spoke. And you wont be able to, either. What I do remember, vividly, is graduation. Im told youre meant to be excited, maybe even a little relieved that you are getting out of here. And maybe all of you are. I was not. I was totally outraged. Here I’d gone and given them four of the best years of my life and this is how they rewarded me by throwing me out. At that moment I was sure really of only one thing: I was of no possible economic value to the outside world. Id majored in art history, for a start. Even then majoring in art history was regarded as an act of insanity. I was almost certainly less well prepared than you are for the marketplace. Yet somehow Ive wound up rich and famous. sort of. Im going to explain, briefly, how that happened. I want you to understand just how mysterious careers can be, before you go out and have one for yourself. So I graduated from Princeton without ever having published a word of anything, anywhere. I didnt write for the Prince, or for anyone else. But at Princeton, studying art history, I felt really the first twinge of literary ambition. It happened while I was working on my senior thesis. My adviser was a really gifted man, an archaeologist named William Childs. The thesis I wrote for him tried to explain how the Italian sculptor Donatelloused Greek and Roman sources, which is a