...Keltham is not actually a Keeper and can't think about two things at once like that, unless, of course, his belief that he can't think about two things at once is - no any skill like that would've needed to have been developed by practice - is his thought correct that maybe this degree of meta-level distraction is itself what he was suggested into and is going to result in him ignoring something much more obvious - "I'm sorry, you're going to need to repeat that after I'm over my initial and retrospectively inevitable mind control meta-level panic thrashing."

...Keltham is not actually a Keeper and can't think about two things at once like that, unless, of course, his belief that he can't think about two things at once is - no any skill like that would've needed to have been developed by practice - is his thought correct that maybe this degree of meta-level distraction is itself what he was suggested into and is going to result in him ignoring something much more obvious - "I'm sorry, I can try to simul-listen if you keep talking but you'll probably need to repeat everything after I'm out of my retrospectively inevitable mind control meta-level panic thrashing."

...Keltham is not actually an Unreasonably Smart Person and can't think about two things at once like that, unless, of course, his belief that he can't think about two things at once is - no any skill like that would've needed to have been developed by practice - is his thought correct that maybe this degree of meta-level distraction is itself what he was suggested into and is going to result in him ignoring something much more obvious - "I'm sorry, I can try to simul-listen if you keep talking but you'll probably need to repeat everything after I'm out of my retrospectively inevitable mind control meta-level panic thrashing."

...Keltham is not actually an Unreasonably Smart Person and can't think about two things at once like that, unless, of course, his belief that he can't think about two things at once is - no any skill like that would've needed to have been developed by practice - is his thought correct that maybe this degree of meta-level distraction is itself what he was suggested into and is going to result in him ignoring something much more obvious -

"I'm sorry, I can try to simul-listen if you keep talking, but you'll probably need to repeat everything after I'm out of my retrospectively inevitable mind control meta-level panic thrashing."