Standing among unmoving sedans, pickups and United Parcel Service trucks, Steve Bellone, the Suffolk County executive, pressed a cellphone to his ear, straining to hear a report about the National Guard's efforts to extract drivers.
In this cold, they stand unmoving as statues, eager to conserve their energy.
They stand unmoving as a trainer punches them or hits their heads with a pole.
At one point, while being attacked, I fell off a walkway to the floor below and looked up to see a monster and a crew member standing side by side, unmoving, waiting for my return.
Laura brushes her teeth and stands, unmoving, by the side of the bed, where her husband waits.
She stared at me, unmoved and unmoving.
But I also think he likes my quietness, too; back at the camp hotel, on Everest, he recalls me standing in a corner of the room, unmoving for hours, staring up at the mountain, and he later said to me, "I was transfixed by your grace and stillness".
From the unmoving center of the floor, you could watch a waiter, standing still beside an empty table, drift by, like a feather in a wake.
"You'd think that a professional footballer, playing at Champions League level, standing still, with no defenders around, would be able to strike an unmoving ball so as to cause it to move in the direction desired.
