You’d think, given the cost of parchment and the effort involved in writing in bookhand, medieval writers would have valued concision But they’re all the handwritten equivalent of the 100-tweet megathread that could have been boiled down to three good tweets
Given that scribes tend to be snarky, and the complexity of consumer complaints in cuneiform, I have to wonder if Mayan stonecarvers, out of sheer boredom with /thus and such ascended to the throne on this date/ managed a cryptic running commentary.