Enlightenment

I read Hesse's Siddhartha again on Friday and this morning as today I needed to teach it to the small group of scholars I've been helping out for their competition, for which they fly off on Wednesday. It always feels a bit odd to say you are teaching any text in Literature - after all, in what sense is a text teachable? But in the case of Siddhartha I got that odd and happy sense that the text was teaching me. The best lit lessons always feel that way. It helps to be inspired by searching questions also. I was almost convinced by one or two of my answers.