This character concludes that it would have been better if a black butterfly in his house had been born blue after he regrets killing it with a towel. A conversation between this character and his lover is composed solely of punctuation in the chapter “The Old Dialogue Between Adam and Eve.” (10[1])When this character is astonished to encounter an old schoolmate who is now a beggar, the schoolmate steals his watch during an embrace. This character’s father sends him to university in Portugal for stealing money to buy his girlfriend jewelry. This character obsesses over creating a poultice to alleviate melancholy. A friend introduces the philosophy of Humanitism to this lover of Virgilia, who dedicates a book “to the worm who gnawed the cold flesh of my corpse” and befriends Quincas Borba. For 10 points, name this protagonist of some “Posthumous Memoirs” by Machado de Assis. ■END■