... Bangkok. In the extract I have chosen, Richard recounts an encounter with 'Mister Duck', who, at the beginning of he book, commits suicide. In the extract below, it is only the second time that Richard 'meets' 'Mister Duck', the first being when Richard was feverish. Therefore we can easily presume that Richard was hallucinating when he first 'met' 'Mister Duck' but in this extract, it is hard to tell, from the way Richard narrates it, that 'Mister Duck' is imaginary: Mister Duck sat in his room on the Khao San Road. He'd pulled back one of the newspapers that covered the window and was peering down to the street. Behind him, strewn across his bed, were coloured pencils, obviously the ones he'd used to draw the map. The map was nowhere in sight so maybe he'd already tacked it to my door. I saw that his shoulders were shaking. 'Mister Duck?' I ...

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