Vale Austin Asche AC KC RFD Dear Austin, 99 years of life, 999 years of wisdom, and the effervescent ever-inquiring enthusiasm of a 9 year-old lad. I only knew you for the final quarter of your century: a mere 25 years of scholarship, leadership and friendship. I loved your strict compassion, your eccentric orthodoxy, your casual erudition, your inexhaustible store of story, trivial and profound. You ushered me through secret doors to Shakespeare, to Dickens, to your far northern forebears and their ancient sagas, to the civilised wilds of the Savage Club, but most of all, to the law, both common and uncommon. Thank you. Love to Wendy, who has been so indefatigably devoted in these last leaner years, and condolences to all your family. Russell Goldflam
Extremely moving. Well played, Austin.
Vale Austin Asche AC KC RFD
Dear Austin, 99 years of life, 999 years of wisdom, and the effervescent ever-inquiring enthusiasm of a 9 year-old lad. I only knew you for the final quarter of your century: a mere 25 years of scholarship, leadership and friendship. I loved your strict compassion, your eccentric orthodoxy, your casual erudition, your inexhaustible store of story, trivial and profound. You ushered me through secret doors to Shakespeare, to Dickens, to your far northern forebears and their ancient sagas, to the civilised wilds of the Savage Club, but most of all, to the law, both common and uncommon. Thank you. Love to Wendy, who has been so indefatigably devoted in these last leaner years, and condolences to all your family.
Russell Goldflam