Book excerpt: A young man awakes to find himself on a train with Dr Freud from vienna and the sadistic train attendant malkowitz. He can't remember who he is or where he is going and certainly has no idea why he is not wearing his trousers. He allows himself to be led off dressed in a skirt on a visit to a nearby castle where it seems he is expected. But everything is not as it appears and the author leads us through story within story with characters who reality is constantly changing until he pulls his final surprise out of his box of tricks.