Soul Music

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Death’s attempts to build a swing for Susan are a Discworld version of a cartoon that has been doing the rounds in offices all over the world. Usually the cartoon depicts ‘swing-building’ as an increasingly complex series of ‘logical’ steps representing an abstract process such as “the software life cycle”. The finished item, looking somewhat like Death’s completed swing, is typically followed by a final picture showing “what the customer wanted”, namely, a tire hanging from a branch by a single rope.