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"For one hour my body had died. And yet, my soul remained. Now, why? Where was it? Was it - was it - trapped - within me? Could it be trapped forever? Could I - could I - trap it myself?"
"One dies because the body dies, not because the soul. Death is a physical thing, not spiritual. The body deteriorates, what is broken in some way or just decays; but, the soul remains alive. Now, if I can transfer the soul to my apparatus, repair the damaged body, and then return the soul - I have conquered death. Is it not so?"
"Bodies are easy to come by, souls are not."
"I have done what you have told me. What am I to do now?"
"[to Christina] You know, I don't believe you are real. I think you're a meerage - [laughs] a mirage - an oasis in the middle of my desert life."
"We do not know what it is that you do here, sir. We only know that we have heard strange noises and seen strange lights - in the middle of the night."
"Like father, like son!"
"From flesh and innocence... Frankenstein has created the ultimate in evil and desire"
"Now Frankenstein has created a beautiful woman with the soul of the Devil!"
"Peter Cushing — Baron Victor Frankenstein"
"Susan Denberg — Christina"
"Thorley Walters — Doctor Hertz"
"Robert Morris — Hans"
"Peter Blythe — Anton"
"Derek Fowlds — Johann"
"Duncan Lamont — The Prisoner"
"Barry Warren — Karl"
"Alan MacNaughtan — Kleve"
"Peter Madden — Chief of Police"
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.