All the names

..."It's true that not a day passes without new pieces of paper entering the Central Registry, papers refering to individuals of the male sex and of the female sex too who continue to born in the outside world..."

..."The room is arranged, naturally enough, according to a hierarchy, but since, as one would expect, it's harmonious from that point of view, it's also harmonious from the geometrical point of view, which just goes to show that there is no insurmountable contradiction between aesthetics and authority".

From Saramago, José; All the names. Harcourt inc, USA 1997