[bjd2385]

I don't think there's a reasonable explanation. While it's not totally chaotic, I think a lot of it is just politics and reputation. After all, there are plenty of names in programming, mathematics, physics, and even journalism, that come to mind, and I would certainly buy their books before others to see what all of the hype is about. Very rarely do I find myself taking chances with 'unproven texts' that haven't been 'accepted' at-large to learn from.

What I took away was that becoming immortal in text, in the minds of following generations, is every literary scholar's, or scholars', dream in general. We all want to matter. We don't want to be caught up in useless things, unless being immortal doesn't matter to you.