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[[File:Spires1.jpg|thumb|300px|SPIRES]][[File:Spires2.jpg|thumb|300px|SPIRES]][[File:Spires3.jpg|thumb|300px|EVEN MORE SPIRES]]
[[File:Spires1.jpg|thumb|300px|SPIRES]][[File:Spires2.jpg|thumb|300px|SPIRES]][[File:Spires3.jpg|thumb|300px|EVEN MORE SPIRES]]
There are a couple of scenes in the serial experiments lain [[anime]] in which mysterious spire-like structures briefly appear without explanation. The spires are shaped somewhat like coke bottles with spheres on the end. The first occurrence is in [[Layer 11]], and the second is in [[Layer 12]]. The spires are completely unexplained, and even [[Lain]] herself reacts to their appearance in a puzzled manner.
There are a couple of scenes in the serial experiments lain [[Serial Experiments Lain (anime)|anime]] in which mysterious spire-like structures briefly appear without explanation. The spires are shaped somewhat like coke bottles with spheres on the end. The first occurrence is in [[Layer 11]], and the second is in [[Layer 12]]. The spires are completely unexplained, and even [[Lain Iwakura]] herself reacts to their appearance in a puzzled manner.
[[Chiaki Konaka]] doesn't offer much by way of explanation in his [[Scenario Experiments Lain | Scenarios]], but what little he does say is roughly translated below for posterity.
[[Chiaki J. Konaka]] doesn't offer much by way of explanation in his [[Scenario Experiments Lain|Scenarios]], but what little he does say is roughly translated below for posterity.
One obvious discrepancy between the scenario and the show is that in the first scene, Konaka says the spires rise out from between the residential buildings of Lain's neighborhood (which is somewhere in [[Delivery Man|Setagaya]], by the way). However, the scene in the show has the spires rising out of a desolate, canyon-like landscape.
== References ==
'''Page 277''' (Episode: 11, setting: Lain's neighborhood)
'''Page 277''' (Episode: 11, setting: Lain's neighborhood)
Ah, it's gone. <br>The familiar scenery is back.<br>
Ah, it's gone. <br>The familiar scenery is back.<br>
But she remains unsure whether what she saw was a hallucination of her broken heart, or a foreseeing of the future....
But she remains unsure whether what she saw was a hallucination of her disturbed mind, or a foreseeing of the future....
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