Today's Stichomancy for Werner Heisenberg

The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Blix by Frank Norris:

muttered, frowning. "What have I been carrying it around for? I've forgotten. I declare I have." "What book is it?" "Hey? book?...h'm," he murmured, staring. Travis pounded on the table. "Wake up, Condy, I'm talking to you," she called. "It's 'Life's Handicap,'" he answered, with a start; "but why and