Today's Stichomancy for Franz Kafka

The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Bucolics by Virgil:

MOPSUS

What if he also strive To out-sing Phoebus?

MENALCAS

Do you first begin, Good Mopsus, whether minded to sing aught Of Phyllis and her loves, or Alcon's praise, Or to fling taunts at Codrus. Come, begin, While Tityrus watches o'er the grazing kids.

MOPSUS Nay, then, I will essay what late I carved