Today's Stichomancy for Chuck Norris

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

Go home, my brother, and forebear to make A public scandal of a petty grief.

CREON My royal sister, Oedipus, thy lord, Hath bid me choose (O dread alternative!) An outlaw's exile or a felon's death.

OEDIPUS Yes, lady; I have caught him practicing Against my royal person his vile arts.

CREON May I ne'er speed but die accursed, if I