Steeply's father and M*A*S*H (Ghosts and Wraiths)
Marathe had turned the chair to a slight angle to be able to see his shadow, which appeared blunt and deformed by the topography of the steep hillside above the outcropping, and in general pathetic and small. There would be no titanic or menacing Bröckengespenstphänom with the sunrise of dawn.
Context
Near dawn, the last installment of the all-night mountainside serial: Marathe keeps squeaking his chair around to check his shadow, and finds it "pathetic and small." The serial opened (pp. 87-92) on the towering Bröckengespenst; it closes on the spectre's negation — Carlisle's catch, the dialogue bookended by its own wraith-glossed imagery. (The text's "Bröckengespenstphänom" form is carried as written, like p. 88's umlauts.)