Today's Stichomancy for Dan Brown

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

thou'dst well deserv'd it. Kent. Why, fool? Fool. We'll set thee to school to an ant, to teach thee there's no labouring i' th' winter. All that follow their noses are led by their eyes but blind men, and there's not a nose among twenty but can smell him that's stinking. Let go thy hold when a great wheel runs down a hill, lest it break thy neck with

King Lear