Today's Stichomancy for Charlton Heston

The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Oedipus Trilogy by Sophocles:

Is the same of whom the stranger speaks?

JOCASTA Who is the man? What matter? Let it be. 'Twere waste of thought to weigh such idle words.

OEDIPUS No, with such guiding clues I cannot fail To bring to light the secret of my birth.

JOCASTA Oh, as thou carest for thy life, give o'er This quest. Enough the anguish _I_ endure.

OEDIPUS