Endnote 38: the Gespenst gloss
Ghostly light- and monster-shadow phenomenon particular to certain mountains; e.g. q.v. Part I of Goethe’s Faust, the Walpurgisnacht six-toed danceathon on the Harz-Bröcken, in which there’s described a classic ‘Bröckengespenstphänom.’ (Gespenst means specter or wraith.)
Context
The whole endnote, hanging off scene 029's shadow-play, because the last parenthesis is the theme's skeleton key: DFW's own apparatus translates the mountainside serial's recurring imagery into "specter or wraith," seeding the exact noun the Gately scenes will hang everything on. Walpurgisnacht — Faust's witches'-sabbath — is also, quietly, the very night the desert dialogue occupies (30 April into 1 May). (Carlisle points the phänom at Gravity's Rainbow's episode 33; recorded, not adopted.)