“Fever jumped aside just in time to dodge the shower of urine, and stumbled into the path of a religious procession - celebrants in robes and pointed hats whirling and clapping and chanting the name of some old-world prophet”

—  Philip Reeve , book Fever Crumb

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English children's writer and illustrator 1966

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