Today's Stichomancy for Ray Bradbury

The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Pericles by William Shakespeare:

HELICANUS. How dare the plants look up to heaven, from whence They have their nourishment?

PERICLES. Thou know'st I have power To take thy life from thee.

HELICANUS. [Kneeling.] I have ground the axe myself; Do you but strike the blow.

PERICLES. Rise, prithee, rise.