Emmanuel Ghent, referred to with fondness as “Mannie,” is remembered for his capacity for sensitive attention. A brief moment shared listening to music serves as a point of departure for a series of reflections on Mannie's love of music and psychoanalysis, his commitment to change, and how his ideas about surrender shaped that commitment and continue to influence the analytic community. In his musings on Mannie's thesis concerning submission and surrender, the author considers how Federico Fellini's ideas about availability can add texture to Mannie's ideas about surrender. The essay closes with a return to the author's experience of the way in which Emmanuel Ghent embodied his credo.