Today's Stichomancy for Mikhail Gorbachev

The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Poems by T. S. Eliot:

"You, madam, are the eternal humorist, The eternal enemy of the absolute, Giving our vagrant moods the slightest twist! With your aid indifferent and imperious At a stroke our mad poetics to confute--" And--"Are we then so serious?"

La Figlia Che Piange

O quam te memorem Virgo ...

Stand on the highest pavement of the stair-- Lean on a garden urn--