Today's Stichomancy for David Bowie

The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne:

aught to do with it, had hitherto lain in the guardianship of an aged deacon and apothecary, whose piety and godly deportment were stronger testimonials in his favour THE LEECH 145 than any that he could have produced in the shape of a diploma.

The Scarlet Letter