I see Uruk guards menacing human slaves while others gather in small groups, bitching about their captains; I see caragors stalking through the wavering grasses.
There are waiters and captains, servers, runners, water men, third-assistant rice spooners, coat-check dons.
Samuel Beckett, thanks to the line containing the words "fail better", is enjoying a new and unlikely half-life among captains of industry, tennis players and motivators (amusingly, Richard Branson, acknowledging the quote's primary authorship, said "from the playwright, Samuel Beckett, but it could just as easily come from the mouth of yours truly").
The author of the "unacceptable face of capitalism" jibe (his target was Lonrho) attacked corruption and poor performance among the captains of industry, deepening Tory enmity as much as his opposition to some of his party's privatisations.
It was just as strange to see Hamilton-Brown's photograph framed on the wall of the Pavilion alongside Surrey captains such as Hobbs, May, Surridge, Stewarts (AJ and MJ) and Hollioake.
When the coal ships leave the Queensland ports, the two become one as the captains make passage through the 2300 kilometre/1430 mile-long reef – the world's largest.
It was left to the respective team captains to remind people that it was supposed to have been a football match rather than the latest skirmish in the Serbian-Albanian territorial struggle.
This could lead to some tricky decisions for captains and coaches.
Former England captains in other sports were pretty sure where to place their allegiances.
When Australia batted as they did and then declared, there should have been no harm in saying to both captains, given that this was effectively being played as a one-off match, that no matter the circumstance they would ignore their benchmark and let the game run its course if both agreed.
Because the teams themselves now have a stake in the decision-making, captains can no longer berate an umpire's perceived bias or accuse a batsman of poor sportsmanship.
