He boards an ocean liner, and it goes adrift; he stands in front of a house, and a wall falls down around him; fianac es and boulders chase him down a hill.
In the next room a sullen man in a plaid sport coat stands almost adrift in a sea of photos.
"As things stand, Japan is adrift, anchored neither in East nor West and scoring badly on virtually all globalization criteria," he said.
The Sky Blues currently stand three points adrift of the League One play-off places having picked up seven points out of a possible nine under new boss Pressley.
Coventry currently stand five points adrift of the League One play-off places but, if ACL succeed with their application and the club as a whole is deemed to have gone into administration, a 10-point deduction would immediately halt their bid to return to the Championship at the first attempt.
However, he impressed against Derbyshire in the tour game prior to the Test series, making 81, Derbyshire, relegated a year ago, currently lie seventh in Division Two, with promotion hopes extremely slim as they stand 62 points adrift (with a game in hand) of second-placed Hampshire.
The Web site was essentially a collection of guest books, each one with a prompt, and the replies were all stand-alone contributions, adrift in a sea of other people who were speaking to themselves.
At the foot of the Khandama mountain to the west of the Grand Mosque, an innocuous white building stands alone, cast adrift in a sea of paving and tarmac.
Currently, Davis's Alex stand 12th, 10 points adrift of the League One play-off zone with six matches left, although they have a game in hand.
Coventry currently stand just five points adrift of the League One play-off places, but will drop four places to 14th, once the 10-point penalty has been applied.
Since then, Liverpool have been rejuvenated spectacularly and now - along with Arsenal and Tottenham - pose a serious threat to Van Gaal's remaining ambition for this season as they stand only two points adrift.
