Martin has converted to Roman Catholicism and become a priest. The narrative then shifts to Arthur’s sons, now grown men.
The next day, Arthur takes his passport, cleans out his bank account and sends a telegram to his wife, informing her that he’ll be away a long time. Lindemann does, however, succeed in hypnotizing Arthur, and during hypnosis, Arthur reveals that he wants to get away from his current life. The unemployed Arthur boasts to Lindemann: "You can’t hypnotize me….I know how works" and suggests that the hypnotist find a more pliant subject. They have not been close-in fact, they scarcely know each other at all-but their appearance with their father that afternoon in some ways informs the rest of their lives. The oldest son is Martin, and the other two (by a different mother) are twins Ivan and Eric. The central event of the novel occurs in 1984, when Arthur Friedland takes his three sons to see the Great Lindemann, a hypnotist, in a public performance. An elusive novel whose events remain cryptic and largely unexplained.
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