Victoria first read a piece by the Count Herman Alexander Keyserling in a 1927 article in Review of the West. She was immediately fascinated by this eccentric German vitalist, the founder of the School of Wisdom, whom Ramón Gómez de la Serna would call “the last Western myth.” She soon established a written correspondence with Keyserling that would last a year and a half, and became enthusiastic about the idea of bringing him to Buenos Aires to lecture. But faced with the philosopher’s negative reception to the idea, Victoria finally decided to travel to Europe herself in order to meet him. Admiration soon turned to disillusionment. The meeting took place at the Hotel des Réservois in Versailles; all of the expenses were assumed by Victoria. When Keyserling, overtaken by the beauty and the enthusiasm of the Argentine lady, overstepped his bounds, Victoria rejected his propositions. In spite of this trying start, however, Victoria returned to Buenos Aires and began preparations for the arrival of the philosopher. It was then that things went from bad to worse: upon his arrival Keyserling proceeded to drink himself into a tumult at the reception in his honor, calling Victoria “the Indian with arrows.” Nonetheless, in his Memoirs Keyserling admits to having felt before Victoria the “feeling of being enslaved by the most spiritual woman I had ever met.”