Today's Stichomancy for Chris Elliott

The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Alcibiades I by Plato:

SOCRATES: Come, now, I beseech you, tell me with whom you are conversing? --with whom but with me?

ALCIBIADES: Yes.

SOCRATES: As I am, with you?

ALCIBIADES: Yes.

SOCRATES: That is to say, I, Socrates, am talking?

ALCIBIADES: Yes.

SOCRATES: And Alcibiades is my hearer?

ALCIBIADES: Yes.

SOCRATES: And I in talking use words?

ALCIBIADES: Certainly.