Anton‘s Bark - Five

The real Otto admits that being a character in Anton’s novels has
had him going around in circles. He’s unhappy about it, but
there’s no obvious way for him to avoid what he is. He explains
that Anton had decided to do some research at the university
library. The aim was to locate references to the cave his future
reader, a statue of Heraclitus, resides in. In the library, the
writer discovers an eighteenth century map, and is drawn to a
location on that map, called Cape Unknown. This sends him into an
immersion enabling him to hurtle through what he imagines the
whole universe to be. From that vantage in the Unseen, it becomes
easier for Anton spot the cave again. But before he can step
inside, to find out what happens in his novel, he is whisked back
into the library. He tries to write a few new sentences. They
will find their way into Chapter Four, and suggest that the
fictional Otto will end up shouting at himself. The episode
concludes with the real Otto reading that fourth chapter, which
concerns what happens to him in a hotel room, on his first night
in Vienna.