Today's Stichomancy for David Letterman

The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Pericles by William Shakespeare:

'Tis a good constraint of fortune it belches upon us.

SECOND GENTLEMAN. 'Tis so, my lord.

CERIMON. How close 'tis caulk'd and bitumed! Did the sea cast it up?

FIRST SERVANT. I never saw so huge a billow, sir, As toss'd it upon shore.

CERIMON. Wrench it open;