Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
@RobertEllsberg @GiveUsThisDayLP I felt an immediate resonance, sharpened by the discovery we'd been tempered in a similar fire: a formative grammar of inwardness forged by exile, English boarding school, rugby; the contemplative aftertone of a childhood tuned to introspection by the same early rule.
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Merton, back row, third from left, 1932.
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Me, front row, third from left, 1971.
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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