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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.” A poem (10[1])from this country 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 people in a novel from this country (10[2])in which the doctor’s wife is the only person not (10[1])afflicted with the title “white sickness.” For 10 points, name this home country of Fernando Pessoa and the author of Blindness, José Saramago. ■END■

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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Shourjo Ganguli (UG)Ohio State A (UG)Michigan D (DII)6410
Rachel Fanous (DII)Michigan ACWRU C (UG)10210
Biyang Zhang (UG)Michigan BMichigan State B (UG)10610
Elie Aoun (UG)CWRU A (UG)Kenyon B (DII)11410
Cade SmithMichigan State AMichigan State C (UG)11410
Peter Zeng (DII)Ohio State C (DII)CWRU B (UG)12410

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