This moment twists the tropes of romantic love to reveal a true human complexity and gestures at what the two men may symbolize: the über-romantic, a movement in classical composition that has been rejected in favor of a more restrained and multi-genre approach. Hermin’s reworking of Schubert (his Homage) is not simply an expression, it is also a study, an effort undertaken to archive, expand, re-vitalize Schubert’s and Lenny’s legacy. Whether Hermin denies himself or whether he truly refuses Lenny seems ultimately secondary to the gravity of Hermin’s symbolic rejection of romanticism.