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RT @nick_routledge: @MassimoFaggioli An aside. The corpse of Banco Ambrosiano's Roberto Calvi was found 150 yards from my London @Euromoney office. Conspiracy theories are what they are. That said, an elder journalist colleague, expertly versed in Vatican finance, believed John Paul I's death relevantly premature.

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 24 Nov 2023

@lukeburgis A decade or so since we'd last touched base, an investment banking cohort of old called me, from the other side of the world, 2.00 a.m. his time, drunk as a skunk, miserable. "You were the only one of us who had the fucking balls to get out, Nick," he slurred. "The only one."

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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Routledge Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: Privileged / 3 Before / As it happens / 1 Sometimes / 2 You're right Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1565516774782955520 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @TornadoNate Privileged, I began my working life at the highest levels of global political economy. Soon enough, I grokked it. Within a decade, I was a houseless, wandering mendicant, testing wisdom teachings - a deliberate choice. Now, I'm another 25 years further in. Some insights, then.

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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Routledge Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: Privileged / 3 Before / As it happens / 1 Sometimes / 2 You're right Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1703866966124179665 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @BrianZahnd @Stu0Miller 3/ Before a report, context. Cultured, cosmopolitian, worldly and, by then, righteously dechurched, my deliberate surrender to life as a penniless, peripatetic mendicant almost 30 years ago, proceeded to expose me to modes of significance and order I could never have anticipated. t.co/fpKT24SNWy

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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Routledge Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: Privileged / 3 Before / As it happens / 1 Sometimes / 2 You're right Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1581310751498981377 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @nils_gilman As it happens, the 1980's sovereign debt crisis proved a primary factor shaping my trajectory through life. At work, investigating financial fundamentals; at play, hanging with dear pals from business school whose sound business decisions were, as I recognized it, killing people.

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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Routledge Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: Privileged / 3 Before / As it happens / 1 Sometimes / 2 You're right Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1543969405008171008 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @RichardRohrOFM @CACRadicalGrace 1/ Sometimes, someone will tell me that even as they truly value my example, nonetheless 21st century realpolitik is a cage making it impossible, in practice, to emulate the Jesusy radicalism my life inhabits. I get it. It was easier to leave the nets in Francis’ time, I reckon.

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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Routledge Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: Privileged / 3 Before / As it happens / 1 Sometimes / 2 You're right Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1543970225892126722 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @RichardRohrOFM @CACRadicalGrace 2/ "You're right," I'll answer. “I have wiggle room where you do not." And I'll also quote the Quaker, Jim Corbett, speaking specifically of Francis' errantry: “To open the way, a cultural breakthrough need not involve masses of people, but must be done decisively by someone."

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Quoted by@RizomaSchool 2/ As a hack, barely an adult, I found myself lurking around the innermost sanctums of the highest reaches of global political economy and this, in the media capital of the world. In my mid-20's, savvy, but in defeated and devastated disarray, I cut and ran from the Corruption.Quoted by@leashless Slightly?