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"Mr. Winthrop, three-quarters of my family have fallen into madness, and in their madness have acquired a, a superhuman strength... so that it took the power of many to subdue them."
"I suggest you leave, Mr. Winthrop. No? Then perish with us."
"See to the crypt, will you?"
"Did you know that I could hear the scratching of her fingernails on the casket lid?"
"Vincent Price - Roderick Usher"
"Mark Damon - Philip Winthrop"
"Myrna Fahey - Madeline Usher"
"Harry Ellerbe - Bristol"
"The House of Usher is no more - and the place whereon it stood is as if - it had never been."
"Edgar Allan Poe's overwhelming tale of EVIL & TORMENT"
"I heard her first feeble movements in the coffin... we had put her living in the tomb!"
"He buried her alive... to save his soul!"
"Edgar Allan Poe's demonic tale of The Ungodly... The Evil House of Usher"
"Pray, speak quietly, every sound you make is such exquisite agony to me."
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.