Culpeper County High School - Colonnade Yearbook (Culpeper, VA)

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The dreamer cloaked in unrealiU . 19

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FOCUS ON REALITY Fingers rub eyelids in boredom and frustration, as if they are trying to rub out the immediate world. Colors flash behind eyelids — a movie on a screen. Figures and shapes in the room are obscured and wavering, seen through unfocused eyes. The teach- er’s mouth moves hut no sound comes to the ears; the mind is not com- prehending. A distant part of the imagination beckons. Classroom noises and life’s complications disap- pear. They seem to lose themselves in clouds of unreality. A scent comes to the nose, a bottled fragrance reminiscent of freshly mown grass. Toes feel cool grass or wet, wann sand. The mind is on the beach, hearing waves. Then it is lurking in summer shadows, or hiking up moun- tains, or relaxing on the side of a swimming pool, or lying between cool, white linens in the middle of a summer afternoon. Free from pres- sures and inhibitions, the mind wan- ders and delights in fantasies unat- tainable and in desires umpienchahle. Suddenly noises seem closer, and classroom thoughts begin to surface, while dreams are forced to submerge. Fingers again rub eyelids. Eyes strive to focus — to conform with the other eyes in the room — to achieve sup- posed reality. The world, to focused eyes and alerted brain, is a room full of students and studies. Unreal reality! Illusions sought by the dreamer. Elusions created by the dreamer. 18

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M iss Keller, the music and choral teacher, sells milk to students during lunch. At the senior table during lunch, there is talking, laughing, eating, and rela.xing.