The word “accounts” in literature is used in a remarkably versatile manner, often carrying dual meanings. In some works, such as Samuel Pepys’s detailed diary entries ([1], [2], [3]), “accounts” denotes a literal record of financial transactions or daily expenses. In other texts, it is employed more broadly as narratives or testimonies that document historical events or personal experiences—for example, Edmund Burke’s and Pliny the Elder’s writings offer “accounts” that collect and present events and customs from the past ([4], [5], [6]). Additionally, several authors use “accounts” in an explanatory sense, where it functions to provide reasoning or causal explanation behind occurrences, as when a delay is attributed to a sequence of mishaps ([7]) or legends are explained through conflicting narratives ([8]). Thus, across genres and epochs, the term “accounts” can refer both to the detailed balancing of books and to the assembling of reports and explanations that shape our understanding of historical, social, or literary events.