Who is she? Where does she come from? Have I encountered her before? I mean one and a half millennia earlier? Does she come from a noble Greek lineage, and did her great-grandmother have an affair with people from Asia Minor, Egypt or Mesopotamia?
Closing lines of a letter drafted by André Jolles, designed to draw out Aby Warburg, and dated 23 November 1900.
As included in Ernst Gombrich, Aby Warburg. An Intellectual Biography [1970] (London: The Warburg Institute, 1986), 108.