Today's Stichomancy for Donald Rumsfeld

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:

to Lucinda, but she never ordered meals.

Jane was the Cook; but she never did any cooking, because the dinner had been bought ready-made, in a box full of shavings.

There were two red lobsters and a ham, a fish, a pudding, and some pears and oranges.

They would not come off the plates, but they were extremely beautiful.