Our False Sense of Connection
There's no entry for this delusion in the APA, but I think I suffer from Notable Letters Syndrome. Symptoms include wanting to write letters on a tablet of quality paper, with a nice fountain pen, at an antique desk while the camera pans in and a voiceover of what I'm writing, in cursive script, sounds over the classical piano background music. Additional symptoms include hungering desperately for a thick envelope of written note paper, hand-addressed to the NLS patient, and imagining that these letters will be hoarded in a university library collection, like C.S. Lewis' or Virginia Wolfe's. No cure has yet been found for this condition, but it can be managed with the regular exchange of letters*, if said letters are esoteric, and philosophical in content. Discussions on the state of existence and purpose in life prove to be a soothing balm for the parched mind of a person suffering from NLS. I'm self-diagnosing myself with this syndrome after years of anxiety wi
