Today's Stichomancy for Voltaire

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

"Condy, here they come!" "Who? Who?" "Our objects, Captain Jack and K. D. B." "Of course, of course. They couldn't stay. The restaurant shuts up at eight " Blix and Condy had been walking slowly in the direction of Pacific