It feels analogous to complaining about how Michelangelo painted the Sistine chapel on the ceiling instead of on a canvas where we wouldn’t have to crane our necks to see it.

There's more to good prose than just conveying the bare nutrients, y'know?

> The Salinas Valley cycles through wet and dry decades. Droughts cause ruin and exodus, yet people always forget the previous climate phase.

I dunno, doesn't seem to have the same impact on me. Maybe there is something to that whole prose thing.