 Why does Reggie wear glasses?
Henry Infield placed the insulated circlet on his head gently. The gleaming rod extended above his head about a foot, the wires from it leading down into his collar, along his spine and finally out his pants leg to a short metallic strap that dragged on the floor. Floating before him in memory was the vertical hoop and the horizontal hoop, both of shining steel-impervium alloy. If anybody does see that button in a patient's ear, it looks like a hearing aid. But what about the severe case where we have to burn a three-dimensional smiling mother-image on the eyes of the patient with radiation? With that image over everything he sees and with that insidious voice drumming in his head night and day, do you mean to say that man's senses will only be impaired 23 per cent? Infield stepped into the main stream of human traffic and tried to adjust to the second change in the air. A young man with black glasses and a radar headset (a photophobe) was unable to keep from being pushed against Infield. A clean-cut young man with mouse-colored hair was moving toward the stubble-chinned, heavy-shouldered man quivering in the center of a web of impervium cables stuck secure to the walls and windows of buildings facing the street, the sidewalk, a mailbox, the lamp post and Infield. People take one look at your Cure and don't ask you to go walking in the rain. This was revealed, as he turned his head, to be a small metal cube above his left ear. It can't be removed without causing my death and it's indestructible. Men hide in the comforts of insanity, but when faced with death, they are often forced back to reality. Infield wondered why cheap bars and restaurants always used red-checked cloths. A fat man who smelled of the grease and alcohol of the tablecloths shuffled up to them with a towel on his arm, staring ahead of him at some point in time rather than space. "Reggie is studying biblical text. His contact lenses are made up of a lot of layers of polarized glass. Every time he blinks, the amount of polarization changes and a new page appears. The Good Book says a little wine is good for a man, or something like that. It was useless to learn his Bible lessons to save his father, because it was obvious his father was dead. A man could cut his wrists with the edge of a sheet of paper if he tried long enough, so of course the Bible would be imaginary.
 He wants to study passages from the Bible in order to honor his deceased father.
 He wants to study passages from the Bible in order to honor his deceased father.  He is forced to read passages from the Bible or else his father will die.  If he doesn't study biblical scriptures, then he will die and go to Hell (according to his father).  It is his Cure for bad eyesight and also allows him to study the Bible, which is his favorite book.