I think it's a really nice example of form matching content: a very long list of roughly equally improbable events. No prose could ever express the sheer quanti

I think it's a really nice example of form matching content: a very long list of roughly equally improbable events. No prose could ever express the sheer quantity of it all like that seemingly endless list of bullet points. I kind of expected the last bullet point to be "wrote and published his own own biography, few other sources remain"