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Die Container des Hafens von Oakland, von der Bay Bridge aus gesehen, waren für Julie ein lebenslanger Quell der Faszination, Monsterberge aus bunten Kästchen, wie der unvollendete Versuch eines ehrgeizigen Legoprojekts, austauschbar wie Casino-Chips und dennoch gefüllt mit neuen, überraschenden Produkten: Fußbälle, Sushi-Modelle aus Polyurethan, blaue Laserpointer, Nikolausmützen, Zehn-Kilo-Pakete chicharrones.
The container boxes of the port of Oakland, as seen from the Bay Bridge, were a lifelong source of fascination to Julie, monster piles of colored brick like stabs at some ambitious Lego project left unfinished, interchangeable as casino chips and yet each filled potentially with something new and surprising, soccer balls, polyurethane replicas of sushi, blue lasers, Santa hats, twenty-pound bags of chicharrones.
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