Anton‘s Bark - Eight

Otto’s reading of Chapter Six features his surprise meeting with
Father Promentano at the Spitzenhof café. He’d been expecting to
meet Marie there. He’d had a clear premonition of that meeting.
As a result, the fictional Otto can only react angrily when this
doesn’t happen. We discover that the fictional Otto finds himself
in conversations with the peculiar priest, a Greek god in
disguise called Father Promentano, who delivers a carrot,
followed by a stick. The carrot is a large sum of money, the
stick is a nightmare. And so, while sitting with a deity in the
Spitzenhof café, having refused divine money, the fictional Otto
is plummeted to a place in his memory in 1999, when he was last
with Marie before they separated, and he went to England. They
were on holiday together. At one point during this holiday, the
fictional Otto sees his future come alive, through a series of
curious prophecies. The sixths chapter is followed by the real
Otto’s brief commentary on a few sentences that will occur in
Chapter Seven, as well as his account of Anton’s evermore
desperate attempts to get back into the cave, in the year 1882.