Delusions of Grandeur

Me: So do people really actually write famous people and inventors and stuff?
My mom: Yeah, they get tons of mail. Mainly from delusional people who've convinced themselves that they have something brilliant to say that that the famous person will love. They somehow talk themselves into believing that their letter is the one the person will happen to read. Why do you ask?
Me: Oh... nothing...

I mean, come on, people! Is it really that delusional to fantasize about someone brilliant thinking you're brilliant and responding to your letter? Sigh.

This book that Phil and I read together, "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" by Jonathan Safran Foer, planted this seed in my head... I think I'm going to begin a list of famously brilliant people to write this summer and see what happens.