Today's Stichomancy for Mikhail Gorbachev

The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Great Big Treasury of Beatrix Potter by Beatrix Potter:

kitchen table.

And everything was broken, except the mantelpiece and the kitchen fender. The crockery was smashed to atoms.

The chairs were broken, and the window, and the clock fell with a crash, and there were handfuls of Mr. Tod's sandy whiskers.

The vases fell off the mantelpiece, the cannisters fell off the