Spinnin' a rope is fun, if your neck ain't in it

Out in the ocean, a rope is put around the man's neck. The other end of the rope is attached to an old jukebox and it is thrown overboard. The man invariably follows.

You cannot put a rope around the neck of an idea; you cannot put an idea up against the barrack-square wall and riddle it with bullets; you cannot confine it in the strongest prison cell your slaves could ever build.

ROPE, n. An obsolescent appliance for reminding assassins that they too are mortal. It is put about the neck and remains in place one's whole life long. It has been largely superseded by a more complex electrical device worn upon another part of the person; and this is rapidly giving place to an apparatus known as the preachment.

If one puts a rope around his neck, many will be happy to drag him by it.

The whole thing has been no fun, and debilitating, but not indicted is not indicted. It's binary: being indicted is real bad, and not being indicted is real good.