page_0: "Dr. Kruppe,

Thank you for the congratulatory message. I must now enumerate some of your moral and factual errors.

The first concerns my proper address. Dreydolf von Braunstein was a madman from whom I inherited my surname (among other superficies in the province of hyperopic generalizers). I removed the \"von\" from my name to counteract the mnemonic rhyme by which the syllables \"von Braun...\" might foster unfortunate and misleading associations. After all, I do not implant monkeys with the eyes of Ocular Superiors, nor do I intend to take the City by force. Contrarily, I have served faithfully in two of the Baron's wars. I know what my ancestor did, but I prefer by far to be remembered for my immeasurable contributions to science, and not my threadbare blood ties to a famous protobaron.

In short, I am now \"Vitreous Braunstein\". I expect all future correspondences will heed professional etiquette in this regard.

On the matter of perspective, you invoke an equally tired prejudice, neglecting the awesome powers at the other end of the scale, whose masters will someday extirpate themselves from their sinkholes and colonize the moon. A wavelength's advance in the study of foveagenic radiation will have done more for our City than all your gazillion light-years of irrelevance."

page_1: "As you so arrogantly quote the Ocular Superiors, I will do the same: \"Sight makes right\" (the causal affect here being a clear indictment of your whimsical stargazing). But here is a maxim of my own, in case you are in doubt as to whose ranks I will soon belong: \"Eyes that look upward are blind, even when they are not\".

With contempt,

Vitreous Braunstein
Experimental Cavitologist (Ocular Superiority pending)
Baronial Labs"