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"
his gift is for the crafting of exquisite narratives, shows shaped like Alice Munro stories, bathetic and beautiful
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