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"You'll live. I'll make you live."
"September the 12th at 2 A.M. I've just placed a large male hustle roach into the tank to determine if copulation with the fire bug is possible. And I've simulated the atmosphere in which both insects should be able to function."
"September 16th, 4 A.M. The male is dead from the pressure, but the mating was successful. I'm about to depressurize to transfer the egg case. The fire bug... I'll keep it alive just as long as necessary."
"She wouldn't let me anywhere near it. That fire bug is protecting the egg case even though she's under terrific atmospheric pressure. It's incredible. You can almost feel her pain. Never mind. The egg should incubate at sea level pressure."
"September 18th, 10:20 A.M. The egg case has tripled in size in just 24 hours. I wonder... I wonder what kind of creatures this new generation will be. I've already decided to name them Parmiterra Hephaestus. Hephaestus for the Greek god of fire, Parmiterra for me."
"They've become adults in five hours, and they're a combination of both parents and are like either one. Elongated, brownish in color, with two tightened clone-like projections on their head. And spotted segments on the back."
"The Parmiters will eat only raw meat, any kind. I'm not gonna have enough here to satisfy their appetites. I'm gonna have to get some more, but the astonishing fact is that they will only eat as a combined single unit."
"The Parmiters are sensing the more powerful. They seem to know they'll live only as long as I allow them to."
"Today, I noticed that the females are at last carrying egg cases. They continue to listen to me, even to my voice on the tapes when I play them back. Now I know it's an irrational thought, but they even seem to watch me. And certainly lately, they've taken to forming different sorts of patterns."
"I've gone too far. The case is... They must be destroyed. It's cracked. I gotta have it fixed. I'm gonna fix it. I gotta get it all fixed."
"Bradford Dillman as Professor James Parmiter"
"Joanna Miles as Carrie Parmiter"
"Richard Gilliland as Gerald Metbaum"
"Jamie Smith-Jackson as Norma Tacker"
"Alan Fudge as Professor Mark Ross"
"Jesse Vint as Tom Tacker"
"Patty McCormack as Sylvia Ross"
"Brendan Dillon as Charlie"
"Frederic Downs as Henry Tacker"
"James Greene as Reverend Kern"
"Jim Poyner as Kenny Tacker"
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.