粘土板(ねんどばん)の文字の中から精霊たちが這い出して、自分の耳や口の中に入り込む幻覚

Nabu-ahe-erba's research grew increasingly mad. He shut himself in the archives night after night, assaulted by intense hallucinations: 'The Spirits of Characters crawl out from the characters on the clay tablets, entering inside my ears and mouth.' As a result of mastering characters too deeply, his mind lost the boundaries of the real world, completely trapped within the spell of characters.