Entry Eleven: Siddhartha

"As he went of talking and confessing, Siddhartha felt more and more that this was no longer Vasudeva, no longer a man who was listening to him. He felt that this motionless listener was absorbing his confession as a tree absorbs the rain, that this motionless man was the river itself, that he was God Himself, that he was eternity itself. As Siddhartha stopped thinking about himself and his wound, this recognition of the change in Vasudeva possessed him, and the more he realized it, the less strange did he find it; the more did he realize that everything was natural and in order, that Vasudeva had long ago, almost always been like that, only he did not quite recognize it; indeed he himself was hardly different from him.  He felt that he now regarded Vasudeva as the people regarded the gods and that this could not last."

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Two pages later Vasudeva goes into the woods to die. I think its very interesting that Siddhartha senses a difference in him, but realizes that change had been there the whole time, before he goes.  Vasudeva does not act as one would expect when they are close to death.  He becomes calmer and gentler but also more helpful to Siddhartha's sadness concerning his son..