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.”