If you think that Bathos and Pathos are
two of the Three Musketeers, I don't know whether to send you to the
front or back of the class. Actually, nobody much gets pathos wrong;
but bathos? Well, bathos is when Eleanor Roosevelt is meeting Mahatma
Gandhi and they both fart at the same time. Then there's bemused,
right up there with comprised as one of the words it's real easy to
get wrong. Bemused doesn't mean amused. It means sort of set to
thinking, musing. Think of beguile, becalm, befuddle. Or bedraggle.
Let us by all means think of bedraggle.
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