I have a flip phone, so get on the internet and look at the comics on my iPad. I don’t do Facebook and never plan to. It is getting a bit annoying that businesses take it for granted that I have a smartphone. Texting on my flip phone is tedious.
Hawthorne is trying to get the scent of money all over him, kind of like a dog rolling on something dead. Money does have a definite stink about it. I was a cashier for a while. That smell would cling to everything and my hands would get filthy.
The Bible is actually a library of books written by many different authors. Much of the information is passed down verbally through multiple generations, hence the inconsistencies, confusion, contradictions and errors. People do mistake it for a textbook.
Hope the “doctor” got all the targets in the correct places to accomplish his procedure.