A page from the wonderful Serial Experiments Lain (1998) art book an omnipresence in wired. Below is the text, written by Konaka and translated by Akiko Matsumoto
"No, it's not like that" "I heard about it so many damn times but it's really unbelievable and I'm not gonna believe it" "Your ice cream is melting" "How about killing yourself?" "Hey, isn't that cute? I want it too. Where did you get it?" "I felt numb and I gradually lost my senses. It was like everything bad was flowing out of me" "You don't send such creepy things to people without telling them so, do you? This is not normal" "No, it's a different girl" "You mean lain?" "Your ice cream is dripping" "You really meant that?" "Oh, no! I didn't know that! (she cries)" "Who's lain by the way?" "My body was there but my eyes were somewhere else" "Come on! I know what it's all about" "You think it's salty eh? But no, blood tastes sweet" "Look, look, look at it. Can you forgive this?" "Oh, it's horrible, isn't it?" ""Who's on the bed? Why are you so white?"""Who's on the bed? Why are you so white?" "It's not like that, you see" "No, no, I pressed the numbers of the mobile phone at random but it answers the phone every time" "You mean lain?" "It doesn't suit you. Don't buy it." "No wonder your boyfriend gets angry" "I was really bugged so I kicked his Achilles' tendon without warning him (they laugh)" "Who's lain?" "I've been asking you this so many times. How do you know what I have in my mind and why can't I sense what you are thinking?" "Kiss? I just love it" "Don't be stupid you silly girl" "Is that a kind of curse?" "Sorry, we don't want to talk with you" "What? But she died... didn't she?" "Hey, who on earth is lain?"
