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The tea was comforting and strong, and he remembered how Rudi, who, as a young man, had been in prison for two months, had told him that, in the Institute of Correction in Yarbl, tea was the prime currency traded by the inmates, and he thought how in their youth—his and Rudi’s—the world had still contained small corners of innocence, like air pockets in a ship that was going down.
Der Tee war beruhigend und stark, und ihm fiel ein, wie Rudi, der als junger Mann zwei Monate im Gefängnis gesessen hatte, ihm einmal erzählte, Tee sei in der Yarbler Justizvollzugsanstalt das Hauptzahlungsmittel der Insassen gewesen, und er dachte, dass es in ihrer Jugend − seiner und Rudis − auf der Welt noch kleine Inseln der Unschuld gegeben hatte, wie Luftblasen in einem sinkenden Schiff.
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