The question of whether silence preceding any differentiation and silence outlasting all differentiation remain separable dissolves once no distinction can be registered without reintroducing separation.
“Basalt flows entomb the prints of beasts that walked when Vega's gleam gave way and roots first pierced the bare slopes under shifting skies.”
“Peat grips the mammoth tusk from when Orion's belt first leaned and beasts sought meadows where no single star lit the northern edge.”
“Bone dust in the cleft pauses between the last tread fading and the next root piercing where no call answers across the emptied plain.”
“Obsidian plane bears no groove yet joins the hush before first tread to the hush after final tread faded with no ridge between their merge.”