bathos
(en)
(noun) a literary term coined by Alexander Pope to describe to describe amusingly failed attempts at sublimity (an effect of anticlimax created by an unintentional lapse in mood from the sublime to the trivial or ridiculous); adj is "bathetic"
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I often feel this way when alone in Southeast Asian hotel bars---an enhanced sense of bathos, an ironic dry-smile sorrow, a sharpened sense of distance and loss.
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1 year, 1 month ago
I often feel this way when alone in Southeast Asian hotel bars---an enhanced sense of bathos, an ironic dry-smile sorrow, a sharpened sense of distance and loss.
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1 year, 1 month ago
weltschmerz
(en)
a feeling of melancholy and world-weariness; coined by German author Jean Paul
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Once I’m away from the sight of the other lone Western travelers, each, I imagine, with their own weltschmerz-loaded back story, their own unfulfilled longings
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1 year, 4 months ago
Once I’m away from the sight of the other lone Western travelers, each, I imagine, with their own weltschmerz-loaded back story, their own unfulfilled longings
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1 year, 4 months ago