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Saramago died on 18 June 2010 at the age of 87. Saramago has been called “the finest Portuguese writer of his generation”, while Fernanda Eberstadt of The New York Times said he was “known almost as much for his unfaltering Communism as for his fiction”. Saramago’s translator, Margaret Jull Costa, paid tribute to him, describing his “wonderful imagination” and calling him “the greatest contemporary Portuguese writer”. Saramago had continued his writing until his death, his most recent publication, Cain, was published in 2009 with an English translation expected in late 2010. Saramago had suffered pneumonia a year before his death. Having been thought to have made a full recovery, he was scheduled to attend the Edinburgh Festival in August 2010. Saramago, described as a “militant atheist”, was outspoken in his political views, having delivered lectures as a Nobel laureate in his later life, once saying the treatment of Palestine by Israel was comparable to The Holocaust.

José was a solo shot, as many shots of José are. Dr. Death #2 scored the points, and vaulted into first place while he was at it. And all without the assistance of salt or a lime.

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