Object
Classroom Antique Books (Reading Corner)
A small cluster of antique volumes sits on a low classroom shelf and reading table: leather and cloth spines faded to honeyed browns, gilt tooling worn thin, pages yellowed and thumbed at the corners. The books are child‑sized, light in hand, emitting a faint paper musk; children close them and drift away when authority arrives, and a teacher reaches for one as she calls Jeremy forward.
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Purpose
Reading and instructional materials for a classroom reading corner; primarily decorative set dressing that also functions as accessible books for children.
Significance
The books supply domestic warmth and ordinary continuity — tactile anchors of childhood that contrast with the intrusion of command. Their abrupt stillness when Picard enters heightens the emotional cost of the moment and visually frames Jeremy's sudden isolation.
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