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"
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.
notable
1 year, 1 month ago