oh, yes. exactly what i wanted!

a dear pen pal
what could be better?

we were learning about the woman behind the painting "the dancer," by eugene spiro. the label reads:

'The present painting depicts Spiro’s sister Elisabeth Dorothea Spiro known as Baladine Klossowska (1886-1969), mother of the artist Balthus and the writer Pierre Klossowski. In 1921 Baladine (also known by the pseudonym Merline) became the lover of the German poet Rainer Maria Rilke with whom she conducted a passionate correspondence until his death in 1926.'

so. awesome. i, for one, would love to conduct a passionate correspondence with a lover i met once for the rest of my life. it's so unbelievably romantic it hurts.

(maybe this is it? probably not, but it seems to be working out that way....
i'm giddy)