One of his characters repeats a maxim ending "let us do everything in our power not to live entirely like animals".
The opening chapter of a novel by this man features a conversation between representatives of the p.i.t.m., the p.o.t.r., and the p.o.t.l. One of his characters repeats a maxim ending "let us do everything in our power not to live entirely like animals". A late novel by this man gives the name "Constant" to a character that was previously known as the "dog of tears". The old man with the eyepatch and the girl with the (*) dark glasses hook up in one of his novels, while the plot of another is set into motion when 83% of the voters in an election turn in blank ballots. The scissors-stabbing of a sadistic man eventually leads to the burning of an asylum used for quarantine in this author's most famous novel, in which the doctor's wife is the only person not to suffer the title epidemic. For 10 points, name this author of Seeing, a sequel to his 1995 hit Blindness.
The opening chapter of a novel by this man features a conversation between representatives of the p.i.t.m.
Jose Saramago [or Jose de Sousa Saramago]