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"Say, any of you boys smithies? Or, if not smithies per se, were you otherwise trained in the metallurgic arts before straitened circumstances forced you into a life of aimless wanderin'?"
"[Repeated line] Damn, we're in a tight spot!"
"Well, any human being will cast about in a moment of stress. No, the fact is, they're flooding this valley so they can hydroelectric up the whole durn state. Yessir, the South is gonna change. Everything's gonna be put on electricity and run on a paying basis. Out with old spiritual mumbo-jumbo, the superstition and the backward ways. We're gonna see a brave new world where they run everyone a wire and hook us all up to the grid. Yessir, a veritable age of reason - like they had in France. And not a moment too soon..."
"Is you is, or is you ain't, my constituency?"
"They have a plan, but not a clue."
"Sometimes, you have to lose your way to get back home."
"George Clooney – Ulysses ("Ulysses") Everett McGill"
"John Turturro – Pete"
"Tim Blake Nelson – Delmar O' Donnell"
"John Goodman – Big Dan ("Cyclops") Teague"
"Holly Hunter – Penny (Penelope) McGill nee Wharvey"
"Chris Thomas King – Tommy Johnson"
"Charles Durning – Governor Menelaus "Pappy" O'Daniel"
"Wayne Duvall – Homer Stokes"
"Ray McKinnon – Vernon T. Waldrip Suitor of Penelope"
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.