“Walking for walking's sake may be as highly laudable and exemplary a thing as it is held to be by those who practice it,” (Beerbohm 1). He describes voluntarily going for a walk as being an act of stupidity, releasing the intelligence an individual may have obtained prior to the walk. This lack of intuition comes from the clash of one’s soul and brain. While the soul commands the body to walk, the brain questions the destination of the walk, resulting in internal confusion. “Experience teaches me that whatever a fellow-guest may have of power to instruct or to amuse when he is sitting on a chair, or standing on a hearth-rug, quickly leaves him when he takes one out for a walk,” (1).
Beerbohm describes being taken out for a walk as an uneventful trek with an unknowledgeable person. He describes his walking companion of whom the life has been sucked out of as a dull sole unable to keep an interesting conversation. Going out for a walk for walking’s sake is an act Beerbohm has never partaken in, but being taken out for a walk is an act he wishes he never had.
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