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"This is the beat of a human heart. Sit very still and listen. Is your heart beating in this same rhythm? You are experiencing the heartbeat of a dying man. And it is with death and dying that we concern ourselves. What happens at the point of death? What happens afterwards? What happens after death to someone who does not choose to stay dead, someone like Morella?"
"And what is it that happens just before death which leads inexorably to that death? Our second tale provides one roguish answer to that question in the story of a man who hated a cat. The Black Cat."
"What exactly is it that occurs within the moment of death, especially to a man within that moment who is not permitted to die, as in the case of Mr. Valdemar?"
"Pardon me, ladies, but could you spare a coin for a moral cripple?"
"Why don't you watch where I'm going, huh?"
"Haven't I convinced you of my sincerity yet? I'm genuinely dedicated to your destruction."
"Vincent Price — Fortunato/Valdemar/Locke"
"Maggie Pierce — Lenora Locke"
"Mary Leona Gage — Morella Locke"
"Edmund Cobb — Driver"
"Debra Paget — Helene Valdemar"
"David Frankham — Valdermar's physician"
"Peter Lorre — Montresor Herringbone"
"Joyce Jameson — Annabel Herringbone"
"Basil Rathbone — Mr. Carmichael"
"A Trilogy of Shock and Horror!"
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.