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-* ''The Dance of Death'' ([[Ambrose Bierce]] with [[Thomas A. Harcourt]] and [[William Rulofson]], as William Herman) (1877)+'''''The Dance of Death''''' (1877) is a satirical book by [[Ambrose Bierce]] (written with with [[Thomas A. Harcourt]] and [[William Rulofson]], as William Herman)
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 +The book was written by Rulofson's son-in-law [[Thomas A. Harcourt]] and [[Ambrose Bierce]] and released under the [[pseudonym]] "William Herman" and describes the "intolerable nastiness" of the [[waltz]]. A man engaged in the dance is described: "his eyes, gleaming with a fierce intolerable lust, gloat [[satyr]]-like over [his partner]." Bierce later said, "Rulofson ... suggested the scheme and supplied the sinews of sin." Rulofson himself said of the book, "I have shown society what a loathsome ulcer festers in its midst."
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The Dance of Death (1877) is a satirical book by Ambrose Bierce (written with with Thomas A. Harcourt and William Rulofson, as William Herman)

The book was written by Rulofson's son-in-law Thomas A. Harcourt and Ambrose Bierce and released under the pseudonym "William Herman" and describes the "intolerable nastiness" of the waltz. A man engaged in the dance is described: "his eyes, gleaming with a fierce intolerable lust, gloat satyr-like over [his partner]." Bierce later said, "Rulofson ... suggested the scheme and supplied the sinews of sin." Rulofson himself said of the book, "I have shown society what a loathsome ulcer festers in its midst."




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