Editing Serial Experiments Lain (section)

===Writing===
The authors were asked in interviews if they had been influenced by ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'', in the themes and graphic design. This was strictly denied by writer [[Chiaki J. Konaka]] in an interview, arguing that he had not even seen ''Evangelion'' until he finished the fourth episode of ''Lain''. Being primarily a horror movie writer, his stated influences are [[Jean-Luc Godard|Godard]] (especially for using typography on screen), ''[[The Exorcist (film)|The Exorcist]]'', ''[[The Legend of Hell House|Hell House]]'', and [[Dan Curtis]]'s ''[[House of Dark Shadows]]''. Alice's name, like the names of her two friends Julie and Reika, came from a previous production from Konaka, {{ill|Alice in Cyberland|ja|ありす in Cyberland|italic=y}}, which in turn was largely influenced by ''[[Alice in Wonderland]]''. As the series developed, Konaka was "surprised" by how close Alice's character became to the original ''Wonderland'' character.<ref name="HK">{{cite journal|date=April 2000|title=Serial Experiments Lain|journal=[[HK Magazine]]|issue=14|publisher=Asia City Publishing|location=Hong Kong}} in {{cite web|url=http://www.konaka.com/alice6/lain/hk.html|title=HK Interview|publisher=[[Chiaki J. Konaka]]|access-date=September 25, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101124051110/http://konaka.com/alice6/lain/hk.html|archive-date=November 24, 2010|url-status=live}} and {{cite web|url=http://www.konaka.com/alice6/lain/hkint_e.html|title=HK Interview|publisher=Chiaki J. Konaka|access-date=September 25, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101101005437/http://konaka.com/alice6/lain/hkint_e.html|archive-date=November 1, 2010|url-status=live}}</ref>

[[File:Lain hacker small.jpg|left|thumb|upright=1.13|alt=A young girl in a white shift sits with her back to us in the dark, focusing her attention on many glowing computer screens which surround her.|Lain's custom computer features [[holographic display]]s and [[liquid carbon dioxide]] cooling.]]

[[Vannevar Bush]] (and [[memex]]), [[John C. Lilly]], [[Timothy Leary]] and his [[eight-circuit model of consciousness]], [[Ted Nelson]] and [[Project Xanadu]] are cited as precursors to the Wired.<ref name="Animerica2">[[Animerica]], (Vol. 7 No. 9, p. 28)</ref> [[Douglas Rushkoff]] and his book ''[[Cyberia (book)|Cyberia]]'' were originally to be cited as such,<ref name="otakon" /> and in ''Serial Experiments: Lain'', Cyberia became the name of a nightclub populated with hackers and techno-punk teenagers. Likewise, the series' ''[[deus ex machina]]'' lies in the conjunction of the [[Schumann resonances]] and [[Carl Jung|Jung]]'s [[collective unconscious]] (the authors chose this term over [[Kabbalah]] and [[Akashic records|Akashic Record]]).<ref name="Animerica">''[[Animerica]]'', (Vol. 7 No. 9, p. 29)</ref> [[Majestic 12]] and the [[Roswell UFO incident]] are used as examples of how a hoax might still affect history, even after having been exposed as such, by creating sub-cultures.<ref name=Animerica /> This links again to Vannevar Bush, the alleged "brains" of MJ12.

Two of the literary references in ''Lain'' are quoted through Lain's father: he first logs onto a website with the password "{{not a typo|Think Bule Count One Tow}}" {{sic}} ("[[Think Blue, Count Two]]" is an [[Instrumentality of Mankind|Instrumentality of Man]] story featuring virtual persons projected as real ones in people's minds);<ref name="ep1">''Serial Experiments Lain'', "Layer 01: WEIRD"</ref> and his saying that "[[Madeleine (cake)|madeleines]] would be good with the tea" in the last episode makes ''Lain'' "one of the only cartoons ever to allude to Proust".<ref name="Gazette">{{cite web|url=http://www.movie-gazette.com/cinereviews/860|title=Movie Gazette: "Serial Experiments Lain Volume : Reset" Review|access-date=October 11, 2006|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20060521165608/http://www.movie-gazette.com/cinereviews/860|archive-date = May 21, 2006}}</ref><ref>'''Yasuo:''' "I will bring madeleines next time. They will taste good with the tea." ''Serial Experiments Lain'', Episode 13, "Ego". Lain has just erased herself from her friends' memories, while for Proust the taste of madeleines triggers memories of his childhood.</ref>