后来我认识了他过去的一个情人，奥地利画家玛丽·路易斯·莫泰希茨 基。 当时这个女人正优雅地迈入八十高龄，尽管她的身体正因严重的带状疱疹忍受着剧痛，尽管她的人生经历已将她击溃，但她绝对是值得人们多看两眼的人物。 Later I came to know a former lover of his, the Austrian painter Marie-Louise Motesiczky, a woman who sailed into her eighties gracefully in spite of much physical pain as a result of a severe case of shingles, and a life-story that might well have flattened her. She deserves more than passing attention. 这个甜蜜、有趣、脆弱的老女人是个真正的画家，货真价实，几乎能与马克斯·贝克曼以及科柯施卡相提并论。 This sweet, funny, frail old woman was indeed a painter, the real thing, up there with Max Beckmann and Kokoschka. 她谈论绘画时感觉非常棒，这下我恍然明白，为什么从她身上我看不到空虚之感。She was wonderful to talk with about painting, and it explained why there was no feeling of emptiness about her. 她是那种拥有最大幸运的典型例子，不管经历了怎样的苦难，却天生能成就事业。 She was an object lesson on the...