L is an invalid, but his shadow doesn't care.

( Men are the dreams of a shadow. )

It's all fun and games until someone has an unwanted lumbar puncture and nonconsensual cranial surgery.

( Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever. )

Information exchanges, new acquaintances, and a first attempt at going to the basement.

( The limits of my language means the limits of my world. )

Doyleton, teleportation, and Three Wolf Moon.

( Any man who takes credit for the rain must not be surprised if his opponents blame him for the drought. )

In which L becomes, in his own way, a party planner.

( A meeting of serious men. )

( Mental health problems do not affect three or four out of every five persons but one out of one. )

L's going to be pretty angry when he wakes up.

( What the detective story is about is not murder, but the restoration of order. )

This is the day of the "real life" event, during which some patients have been successfully brainwashed to believe the Institute's story about their real lives. Daniel Laurier's file.

( Ignorance is not bliss, it is oblivion. )

L died in the ghost event at the very end of Day 43, but woke up feeling just fine. At least, that's what he's telling himself.

( Dawn and resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is the same as the survival of the soul. )

( A sense of developing strangeness. )