I think this is all a big put-on.

In middle-age, the novelist Evelyn Waugh became increasingly deaf in his right ear: here he puts his ear-trumpet to unusual use. He loved his ear-trumpet, which, though uselessly antiquated in appearance, was a highly refined and effective instrument of amplification.

We use the tools of modern-day p'shat to recover ancient Scripture.

Hit the West, smoke some of that ses, you’ll probably pass out when it reach your dome.