A kind of fever that flares up from time to time. . . . flared up again . . . to about 107 . . . Now there's just a low-grade fever running, nothing to worry about.
Source: On criticism of his writing; in NY Times, 1 Aug 85
-- Philip Roth, (Mar 19 1933-2018), US novelist, short-story writer; His works include an acute ear for dialogue, Jewish middle-class life, and painful entanglements, e.g., Goodbye Columbus, and Portnoy's Complaint.