Today's Stichomancy for Kurt Vonnegut

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

Now in the rearward comes the duke and his: Fortune in favor makes him lag behind. Summon a parley; we will talk with him.

[Trumpets sound a parley.]

CHARLES. A parley with the Duke of Burgundy!

BURGUNDY. Who craves a parley with the Burgundy?

PUCELLE. The princely Charles of France, thy countryman.

BURGUNDY.