Anton‘s Bark - Fifteen

In an echo of the time Anton followed Urania through his own town
at the beginning of the real Otto’s telling Anton’s Bark, Chapter
Thirteen has the fictitious Otto following Marie down a street,
on a dark night in Vienna. She has the fated money. He now
suspects what her secret is, which is to say what the writer has
in store for him as Marie enters a private club. A potent
feedback-loop has begun to irrupt between the fictitious Otto’s
life, and Anton’s experiences in the myth of Midas. The ending of
Otto in Flames might ave been a foregone conclusion, yet the
fictitious Otto would never have guessed at the true outcome. In
the commentary that follows, we learn that as Anton never knew
how his novel ended, despite his many efforts to find out, it
falls to the real Otto to come up with an ending. That
astonishing ending will be set out in Chapter Fourteen of Otto in
Flames, next week. This episode ends with an account of what
happened to Anton on returning to the cave with a puppet of the
fictitious Otto in his mouth, a puppet answering to the name of
Orpheus.