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I arose and undressed , moving on tiptoe about the room , doing stealthily what I had to do , as if I were environed by sleeping enemies whose slumbers it would be fatal to break . In its June decision striking down officially sponsored , student-led prayers before public high school football games , the U.S. Supreme Court reinforced its consistent precedent against officially sponsored public prayer in public schools - - as well as its equally consistent precedent upholding private student prayer . He had rocketed his way through advertising , starting with paper towels and laundry soap , moving through vaginal preparations , soft drinks , and automobiles , until the only thing left unsold was people and , rising to the challenge , he became a campaign consultant . Along with the flies there is a swarm of mosquitoes , buzzing like a ripsaw . As shown by the recent controversy over the Confederate battle flag at the South Carolina state capitol , Confederate flags are ambiguous symbols that can be interpreted as conveying racism or honoring the common soldiers who fought for the Confederacy ( though in my view , they have no place atop a state capitol or other government building ) . The last sight that I remembered was a vague , white , moving mass , as if all the graves around me had sent out the phantoms of their sheeted dead , and that they were closing in on me through the white cloudiness of the driving hail . " You have a doctor 's kid going to a school that spends three times more on him than the school where the cab driver 's kid goes .