 Why does Reggie wear glasses?
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? A young man with black glasses and a radar headset (a photophobe) was unable to keep from being pushed against Infield. Men hide in the comforts of insanity, but when faced with death, they are often forced back to reality. 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.
 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.