Hermann Hesse Museum, Montagnola, Switzerland

The primary focal point was Hesse's typewriter, sitting atop his writing desk, calm and still, as if meditating. On this very typewriter he wrote Magister Ludi, Narcissus and Goldmund and The Journey to the East. Standing in its presence, I felt like I was looking at the Bodhi Tree in India, where the Buddha achieved enlightenment.