Drew Crecente (they)So... he writes out "goodlooking" but abbreviates "very".
One could assume that he recognized, in this context, "very small" was a proxy for "childlike" and resorted to abbreviation to pretend this wasn't v creepy.
And were he aware of E's history, mentioning this characteristic seems to be an attempt to ingratiate himself with E.
A shame that all of the men Gelernter knows allegedly "behave" like this.
That explains a lot, but it excuses nothing.