First day of BST! Yay!!!

I have some reflections on my own list from Friday:
It surprises me that there are no filmmakers or actors in there. I guess the process of movie-making is so collaborative that it's hard to single out individuals worthy of immense praise (although Billy Wilder was given a high score in my original long list).
The decision to preclude involvement from people who had a creative career as a consequence of fame in other fields made the list very different to what it might have been too. And it led to some inner battles over the likes of Cicero and Marcus Aurelius. The former was primarily a lawyer and politician, but is most known for his writings, the latter was an emperor and philosopher, but his written word has become hugely important. They did not, however, set out to be creative artists from the start, and so that was how I made the differentiation. And I know a similar swipe could be levelled at Arthur C. Clarke, whom I DID include, but his novels were a separate venture to his scientific ones, and were written deliberately as fiction to sell as fiction, so that seemed an important difference to me.
Other notable absentees have to be The Cure, (who, after all, inspired this list in the first place), the composer John Barry, and the likes of Clive James and Billy Connolly. I made some hard either/or choices that I imagine will be different on a different day, so WHEN I do this again and update it, it's possible that Tom Lehrer, Peter Cook and Peter Ustinov might also appear.
Now I have to stop thinking about it and get on with my life......

RC 29-3-26