I wonder if Eggers was influenced to choose the name László Tóth for his protagonist from the pseudonym used by Don Novello (aka Father Guido Sarducci). Lazlo Toth wrote letters to corporations and prominent figures in the 1970’s (his letters to Richard Nixon aka “Roland” are worth the price of admission). “The Lazlo Letters” is a compil…
I wonder if Eggers was influenced to choose the name László Tóth for his protagonist from the pseudonym used by Don Novello (aka Father Guido Sarducci). Lazlo Toth wrote letters to corporations and prominent figures in the 1970’s (his letters to Richard Nixon aka “Roland” are worth the price of admission). “The Lazlo Letters” is a compilation of those letters and inspired Seinfeld’s “Letters From a Nut.”
It must be a common name. A Google search turns up a Hungarian geologist. I always assumed that Novello had named the character after the mentally disturbed man who vandalized the Pietà in 1972, but I have no information on that.
I wonder if Eggers was influenced to choose the name László Tóth for his protagonist from the pseudonym used by Don Novello (aka Father Guido Sarducci). Lazlo Toth wrote letters to corporations and prominent figures in the 1970’s (his letters to Richard Nixon aka “Roland” are worth the price of admission). “The Lazlo Letters” is a compilation of those letters and inspired Seinfeld’s “Letters From a Nut.”
It must be a common name. A Google search turns up a Hungarian geologist. I always assumed that Novello had named the character after the mentally disturbed man who vandalized the Pietà in 1972, but I have no information on that.
When he wrote Datsun in response to their “Datsun means freedom” ad campaign and signed off with “Datsun of Choice.” 😂😂😂