Bathos is an effect of anticlimax created by an unintentional lapse in mood from the sublime to the trivial or ridiculous: “his epic poem has passages of almost embarrassing bathos.” – Apple dictionary.
But Lynch overcame this by intentionally structuring his sublime work into the ridiculous. This is called “discontinuity” in the arts, used to great effect by Warhol and William Burroughs (see, Cities of the Red Night,
Bathos is an effect of anticlimax created by an unintentional lapse in mood from the sublime to the trivial or ridiculous: “his epic poem has passages of almost embarrassing bathos.” – Apple dictionary.
But Lynch overcame this by intentionally structuring his sublime work into the ridiculous. This is called “discontinuity” in the arts, used to great effect by Warhol and William Burroughs (see, Cities of the Red Night,
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