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A city in this country titles a poem in which the speaker exclaims “as long as the Silence and Abyss hold off, I want to be alone!”, which is the first of two poems titled “[that city] Revisited.” A section that groups poems according to the coat of arms opens a collection from this country titled for a translation of the word “message.” (10[1])A poem from this (10[1])country (10[1])includes the line “where the land ends and the sea begins,” which inspired the first line of a novel from this country that depicts the final year of a “heteronym” of a poet from here. (10[1])The “dog of tears” (10[1])protects (10[1])people in a novel from this country in which the doctor’s wife is the only person not afflicted with the title (10[1])“white sickness.” For 10 points, name this home country of Fernando (-5[1])Pessoa (10[1]-5[1])and the author of Blindness, José Saramago. ■END■ (0[1])

ANSWER: Portugal [or Portuguese Republic or República Portuguesa] (The poem in the first line is “Lisbon Revisited” (1923) by Pessoa. The unnamed novel is The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis by Saramago.)
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