Excerpt from Rambles in the Black ForestRich and poor, all these people are touring, ' and the tourist has only one object in life to 'do' something, to 'get' somewhere, and to have the right to say he has 'done it, ' or 'got there' all on foot, or all in a motor-car, or all in a first-class sleeping compartment, just as his particular ambition tends. And, rich and poor, all these people are more or less mad at any rate, pitiful self-deceivers. They call 'pleasure' what is in reality a strenuous hustle and bustle which no one really enjoys they call 'sight-seeing' a blind race to some given point which has no further interest for them from the moment that they have reached it.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.