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"Call me by my dream name. Call me!"
"Father Lankester Merrin died in Georgetown, near Washington, D.C., while attempting to exorcise a 12-year-old child, Regan MacNeil. The name of the spirit that possessed her was Pazuzu, an Assyrian demon traditionally known as the king of the evil spirits of the air. Father Merrin had first encountered this demon in Ethiopia forty years earlier, when it possessed a young African boy. Father Merrin believed the human spirit was on the threshold of a great leap forward—either into goodness or evil. His teachings inspired many disciples, of which I was one, and his death dispirited us deeply. So it was that four years later, I climbed a hill in South America with a heavy heart, for it had fallen to me to carry on Father Merrin's struggle."
"I've flown this route before. It was on the wings of a demon."
"When the wings have brushed you... is there no hope once the wings have brushed you?"
"[regarding the Catholic church] Satan has become an embarrassment to our progressive views."
"You've got to fight that demon that's inside her! It's preventing her from reaching full spiritual power!"
"Don't you understand... that I was face to face with the Evil that's inside her. Your machine has proved scientifically that there's an ancient demon locked within her!"
"You realize what you're up against, don't you? Evil. Evil is a spiritual being, alive and living, perverted and perverting, weaving its way insidiously into the very fabric of life."
"The power... it's getting nearer. Can't you feel it? The power is immense. It fills me. I can do anything."
"It was horrible. Utterly horrible... and fascinating."
"[last words] REGAN!!! AAAHH!!! [crushed to death]"
"Pazuzu: No! Once the wings have brushed you, you're mine forever!"
"Older Kokumo: If Pazuzu comes for you, I will spit a leopard."
"It's four years later...what does she remember?"
"Linda Blair - Regan McNeil"
"Richard Burton - Father Philip Lamont"
"Louise Fletcher - Dr. Gene Tuskin"
"Max von Sydow - Father Merrin"
"Kitty Winn - Sharon Spencer"
"Paul Henreid - The Cardinal"
"James Earl Jones - Older Kokumo"
"Ned Beatty - Edwards"
"Belinda Beatty - Liz"
"Rose Portillo - Spanish Girl"
"Ken Renard - Abbot"
"Barbara Cason - Mrs. Phalor"
"Joey Green - Young Kokumo"
"Richard Paul - Man on the Plane"
"Dana Plato - Sanda Phalor"
"Karen Knapp - Pazuzu"
"Marianne Muellerleile - Patient"
Young though he was, his radiant energy produced such an impression of absolute reliability that Hedgewar made him the first sarkaryavah, or general secretary, of the RSS.
- Gopal Mukund Huddar
Largely because of the influence of communists in London, Huddar's conversion into an enthusiastic supporter of the fight against fascism was quick and smooth. The ease with which he crossed from one worldview to another betrays the fact that he had not properly understood the world he had grown in.
Huddar would have been 101 now had he been alive. But then centenaries are not celebrated only to register how old so and so would have been and when. They are usually celebrated to explore how much poorer our lives are without them. Maharashtrian public life is poorer without him. It is poorer for not having made the effort to recall an extraordinary life.
I regret I was not there to listen to Balaji Huddar's speech [...] No matter how many times you listen to him, his speeches are so delightful that you feel like listening to them again and again.
By the time he came out of Franco's prison, Huddar had relinquished many of his old ideas. He displayed a worldview completely different from that of the RSS, even though he continued to remain deferential to Hedgewar and maintained a personal relationship with him.