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Er heizte tüchtig ein, und die Temperatur stieg, während Gustav Geschichten von Schiffbrüchen, in Felsen geritzten Seekarten und Vögeln erzählte, die auf ihren Herbstzügen mit dem Leuchtturm kollidierten und schubkarrenweise starben.
He built up the fire and, as the temperature rose, told tales of foundered ships, maritime maps scratched into flat rocks and birds that collided with the lighthouse during their autumn migration and died by the barrowload.
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