Since everybody is busy admiring their own reflections in the gym mirrors, nobody will notice too if one lies dying. What I dislike the most about gyming is that the “reps” or repetitions demand that the mind be put to sleep. In this respect, no physical activity suits me better than walking. Andy Martin writes of Sartre in The Boxer and the Goalkeeper, “It seemed to him like a natural extension of the Socratic dialogue. Camus, who was close to both Sartre and Beauvoir until they had a public falling-out, was a footballer.