11.   Gone are the days when scientists were blind to the world beneath their feet.

12.   Gone are the days when those with the will to be chic had to be slaves of fashion.

13.   Gone are the gray industrial carpeting and the stark white walls.

14.   Gone are the wild, kaleidoscopic murals, desiccated couches and furry dancing masses that rendered the old space a rhythmic poltergeist.

15.   Gone is the stereotype of a pothead hippie.

16.   Gone is the wide fast road and its dangerous crossing, where the stripes gave walkers a false sense of security.

17.   Gone was the free and easy time of three meals a day and as many hot drinks as we liked.

18.   Gone was the haunting melancholy, the air not so much of discontent as of incompleteness.

19.   Gone were the carefree, witty passages written in the first person, the conversational style, the caustic bitter comments.