Today's Stichomancy for Spike Lee

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:

from house to house through those long, narrow passages.

But the tailor came out of his shop and shuffled home through the snow. And although it was not a big house, the tailor was so poor he only rented the kitchen.

He lived alone with his cat; it was called Simpkin.

"Miaw?" said the cat when the tailor opened the door, "miaw?"