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Pathos versus Bathos

redarmyblues · 2014-09-16 07:31:46

I was in bed this morning, calculating the exact time to get up and also reflecting in the back of my mind on the Scottish Referendum when I recalled how a friend of mine said the other night in relation to reading comment pieces in the press in relation to it "What the fcuk is all this pathos and bathos, and whats the…

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redarmyblues

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I was in bed this morning, calculating the exact time to get up and also reflecting in the back of my mind on the Scottish Referendum when I recalled how a friend of mine said the other night in relation to reading comment pieces in the press in relation to it "What the fcuk is all this pathos and bathos, and whats the differ between the two". We were both p1ssed so I don't think he was any more enlightened the next day by way of my mazy explanations, but all of a sudden the following definition in verse form popped into my head this morning (too late as is always the way with these things).

Pathos v Bathos

Pathos being an art,
Where the pithy, fruit pity,
In the stoniest of hearts

Bathos is a bottle of bubbly stuff.

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