[A crash course on stereotypes in this day and age, but one he took value in. Ever the intellectual sponge, however, she used another term that he didn't quite understand.]

It is my understanding that use of said 'carn tracts' will lessen the "geek" appearance?

[Carn- corn- Contacts... those were informants, right? He had a chain of them back home, but only so few here. Why was he still called a geek, then?]

Yet I'm rather fond of my glasses. Alas, the opinions of this day and age are distressingly skewed!