Anton‘s Bark - Four

Anton’s abilities as a writer have by now foundered. He is so
confounded by what he is imagining, that it becomes necessary to
redraft what he has written, in order to accommodate the visions
being visited upon him by his muse. The places he goes to in his
mind come to be spoken of as the Unseen. In this episode, the
real Otto tells of another of Anton’s immersions in the Unseen.
On this occasion the writer attempts to get back into the cave,
where he believes his future reader may still be able to help
with an account of what happens in Otto in Flames. While
redrafting Chapter Three, Anton finds himself at the entrance to
the cave, but can’t help imagining that he will be ambushed
there, as soon as he tries to go in. The episode concludes with
the real Otto’s reading of the third chapter of Anton’s novel, in
which his fictional self, having returned to Vienna, has every
reason to suspect that the priest on the flight over from London
has been following him.