Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
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@DalrympleWill He helped set me walking, not just to pass over ground, but to enter a reciprocal rite—each step, a covenantal exchange where boundaries blur and walker and walked co-inhere. In time, the path is inscribed not just in earth but in heart, until identity and essence mirror terrain.

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Chatwin and Herzog together, played a central role awakening me to the ontology of walking. Stateside, not long thereafter, I gave it all away and literally walked, for some 2-3 years, without money or possessions. A mendicant media ecologist, walking and talking.
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Copy of tweet here: Chatwin and Herzog together, played a central role awakening me to the ontology of walking. Stateside, not long thereafter, I gave it all away and literally walked, for some 2-3 years, without money or possessions. A mendicant media ecologist, walking and talking.

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 16 Sept 2025

@Plough @joynessthebrave 1/3 For a few years, I walked without money or possessions, stumbling into an eschatonic physics. Inaugurated eschatology isn't an idea: it's the Real freed from lunatic constraint—not "living differently in the world" but the world changing state in response to a way of living.

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Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @ThinkingFaith 1/12 Walking in Kingdom light, I’m grounded in the ordinary, daily proof of history's drift toward divine reconciliation. An itinerant life as a wandering horticulturist has been the chief guide and catalyst of my formation across all major traditions, including normative Islam.Quoted by@ThinkingFaith 1/12 Walking in Kingdom light, I’m grounded in the ordinary, daily proof of history's drift toward divine reconciliation. An itinerant life as a wandering horticulturist has been the chief guide and catalyst of my formation across all major traditions, including normative Islam.