Anton‘s Bark - Seven

This episode begins with the real Otto’s reading of Chapter Five.
It is a pivotal chapter in Anton’s novel where, after waking up
from a nightmare in his hotel room in Vienna, the fictional Otto
arranges to meet his estranged wife, Marie, at the Spitzenhof
café, only to be shocked and disappointed when he gets there. We
learn that the fictional Otto has been endowed with special but
difficult to interpret powers of foresight. Since 1999 he’s been
able to foresee what was going to happen to him within
twenty-four hours of his arrival in Vienna. Unfortunately, the
details of these prophecies are sketchy. Not to be thwarted by
Anton’s designs for him, in the second half of this episode, the
real Otto emerges once again, in his own right, putting him in
pole-position to challenge Anton’s version of what happens to him
in Otto in Flames, through his telling of what happens to Anton
after he disappears and tries to write an improved draft of
Chapter Six.