Farewell to John Cargher

John Cargher hosted Singers Of Renown on ABC's Radio National from 1966 until he decided—last week—to retire. He was the opera critic for the Bulletin for nearly as long. He died today having given me and millions of others years and years and years of delight and startling discoveries.

Ludwig Wittgenstein, when he was still young and a mystery to everyone, said (in the Tractatus)

If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present. Our life has no end in just the way in which our visual field has no limits.

He might have said, too, in just the way the song never ends.

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