Perversely Clean for Reasons of Its Own
they lived in Venice in obscurity
it charmed me to hover she was very
amused he was no doubt not a woman’s
poet And she pretended to make light
of his genius took no pains to defend
him. They live on nothing in such a big,
imposing house dilapidated and
perversely clean, for reasons of its own
— erasure from Henry James’ The Aspern Papers