There are many people here who are very learned. Some are more influential to me than others for a variety or reasons.
But to drop names at the expense of others, who I may not understand yet, or whose names I forgot to mention, creating some sort of disappointment or something like that in them, is a more important concern to me than hurling names I like up against the wall.
I have to say these kinds of lists are beneath us and smack of shallowness and cronyism. I am sorry….