22What Next? Once science had duly confirmed intuition, Onno phoned Max in Leiden and asked him if he had any plans for that evening. It surprised Max a little, because Onno usually gave only ten minutes' warning before dropping in. At nine o'clock the sound of his stumbling footsteps resounded through the stairwell, and on the threshold, with clumsy elegance, he assumed the pose of a classical god, an Apollo Belvedere: arms outstretched and head slightly averted. "Noble simplicity, silent grandeur," he said. "You see before you a personage beside whom you sink into total insignificance." "You have a supernatural beauty," said Max. "It can only be that the spirit has been poured out into you." "You have no idea of everything that's been poured out." Onno sat down in his chair and said, "Brace yourself, Max." And when Max joined in the game and grabbed hold of the grand piano, he continued, "I'm going to be a father." Max kept his hands on the smooth black varnish and looked at him.
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