“I will never go out for a walk (Beerbohm 239).” Walks are one of the most common and preferred method of clearing one’s mind and for some, a way to gain inspiration. However, there are also many who are against the simple activity of walking, claiming that it lowers one’s intelligence. In his short personal essay, “Going Out for a Walk”, Max Beerbohm supports this latter way of thinking, explaining why taking a walk is detrimental towards one’s thinking process. After his experiences walking with others, Beerbohm writes an essay presenting and justifying his belief that going out for a walk deteriorates the brain. Using a mockingly humorous tone, easygoing diction, and an uncomplicated syntax, Beerbohm easily attracts readers of many kinds to peruse this essay telling of drawbacks of going out for a walk.
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He tries to avoid it when possible and has never willingly got up to go strolling without reason other than that itself. To him it is an activity which stops the brain founded by the observations gained when others managed to pressure him to accompany them whilst taking a walk. “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 (Beerbohm 238).” Beerbohm blames the lapse of judgement on conflict between the soul and the brain. The soul cries out for the body to move without destination or reason and so the brain refuses to be part of something that it deems foolish, resulting in it stopping its activities. “Very well, Vagula, have your own wayula! But I, says the brain, flatly refuse to be mixed up in this tomfoolery (Beerbohm 239).” He claims the brain would not do any deep thinking while you are out walking, which brings him to his conclusion that he would never go out for a
He tries to avoid it when possible and has never willingly got up to go strolling without reason other than that itself. To him it is an activity which stops the brain founded by the observations gained when others managed to pressure him to accompany them whilst taking a walk. “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 (Beerbohm 238).” Beerbohm blames the lapse of judgement on conflict between the soul and the brain. The soul cries out for the body to move without destination or reason and so the brain refuses to be part of something that it deems foolish, resulting in it stopping its activities. “Very well, Vagula, have your own wayula! But I, says the brain, flatly refuse to be mixed up in this tomfoolery (Beerbohm 239).” He claims the brain would not do any deep thinking while you are out walking, which brings him to his conclusion that he would never go out for a