Today's Stichomancy for David Letterman

The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Great Big Treasury of Beatrix Potter by Beatrix Potter:

it, shyly warming his hands. Mr. Piperson pulled off a boot and threw it against the wainscot at the further end of the kitchen. There was a smothered noise--"Shut up!" said Mr. Piperson. Pigling Bland warmed his hands, and eyed him.

Mr. Piperson pulled off the other boot and flung it after the first, there was again a curious noise--