Today's Stichomancy for Galileo Galilei

The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne:

a gloomier hour; it was the point whither their pathway had so long been tending, and darkening ever, as it stole along -- and yet it unclosed a charm that made them linger 236 THE SCARLET LETTER upon it, and claim another, and another, and, after all, another

The Scarlet Letter