Nick Adams

May my conscience be pure, my exterior modest, my conversation edifying, and my life well-ordered.

[Nick Adams @bigonehearted]

Very fun book that actually has a family connection for me that I wasn’t aware of until I cracked the spine. Recommend it.
Lots of great meditative American writing on sports for us to read over the course of America’s 250th:
• Updike (Rabbit series and Golf Dreams)
• DFW (Infinite Jest and String Theory)
• Don DeLillo (Underworld)
• Richard Ford (The Sportswriter)
And lots of stray scenes in many others (golf courses and caddies in Faulkner’s and Walker Percy’s South; fishing and hunting, if they count, in Hemingway’s Nick Adams stories).

[Nick Adams @bigonehearted]

This short book arrived today, and I’m soliciting my treasured leisurehead and sportsballer followers to weigh in if they have read it:

[Nick Adams @bigonehearted]

This short book arrived today, and I’m soliciting my treasured leisurehead and sportsballer followers to weigh in if they have read it:

[Nick Adams @bigonehearted]

@JoshuaSteinman Great name.

[Nick Adams @bigonehearted]

@owroot Dumped my uncle’s bottle all over my face and his childhood bedroom at my grandparents’ when I was a kid.

[Nick Adams @bigonehearted]

I woke up at 3 am to finish Great Expectations the last morning of exams because I’d promised my (St. John’s grad) English teacher I’d finish it before Christmas break. Thought it was absolutely wretched at 16 but loved it upon re-reading at 39.
Teachers do lead the way and influence their students more than they know.

[Nick Adams @bigonehearted]

@littlebayschool Once you are a parent you better understand why airlines say “Secure your own air mask before assisting others”

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@millerman Epic.

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@SMB_Attorney Thousands of [residential real estate] closings

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@AJA_Cortes Don’t forget Seed, A-1, A-2, B-1 through -3–so maybe more like ~20 rounds

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This song went really hard for people who made As in foreign language class in 2001

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1987 AI musings (Walker Percy, The Thanatos Syndrome)

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@AlcoholElitist Vendemmia — real ones know.

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Reject Modernity / Embrace Tradition

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@RolandGunnTN I ruined one of these as a summer associate when a leftover beer keg sprayed beer all over the trunk and I neglected to clean it out in a timely manner.
Such a fun car to drive around in.

[Raphael Barberi📷 @itsrapha83]

In Italy, small irrelevant cities or isolated villages in the middle of nowhere will have a church that mogs every church in the majority of countries on earth

[Nick Adams @bigonehearted]

@owroot Where is he now?

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Strange: I am older, yet there seems to be more time, time for watching and waiting and thinking and working. All any man needs is time and desire and the sense of his own sovereignty. As Kingfish Huey Long used to say: every man a king. I am a poor man but a kingly one. If you want and wait and work, you can have.
—Walker Percy, Love in the Ruins

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@TradVat2 Shoes on inside the house, shoeless in the yard.

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Campania soon

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@SohrabAhmari Still great tennis & golf shirts if you can find the all-cotton classic ones. Can scoop them up on eBay for decent prices, too.