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♫Disco Danse Macabre♫

Okay, kids, you're too young to remember this, but during the Middle Ages there was this notion of the Dance of Death , or, as the French would have it, the Danse Macabre . To be clear, although there are dead (or Death) in the dance, it's not a dance of the dead (sorry, animated skeletons ). It's a dance of the dead (or Death) with various representatives of living, leading the living to (lowercase-d) death. After all, there's only one way this story ends , kids, for everyone. A universal constant. And like many religiously tinged notions from the middle ages, there's art . And more art . And, later, music . And more music. Fenris knows all this, of course, and decided to turn it into a disco song ! So break out your bell bottoms, pull that pull tab off that Tab, and get ready to dance! One Halloween, seeking hub and bub I went down to the disco club I looked around and saw shapes and masks The bass was pumping and the vibe was fast Associating Dans...