I suppose there's a half decent case to be made for the theory that just about every epoch has possessed its own firm notions of what constituted " Modernity ". Probably ever since archrivals Grokkk and Thorgg beat one another senseless with gazelle tibias for the right to mate with Uuja.

Ok, maybe not that far back. For argument's sake, let's say the Renaissance.

Witness this image, a poster for an MGM flick from the 1920's entitled "Our Modern Maidens".

Surely if anything could provide an interesting starting point for a Modernity vs. Postmodernity debate, this would rank high. I actually thought about this for a while today, and it was a welcome change of pace from Austria-Hungary.

But then it got a bit tiresome, and I found myself daydreaming about assembling a time machine from old washing machines and a few interlinked Nintendo consoles, and setting the dial to 1923. Mission: Meet some Modern Maidens. Hang out, maybe go dance a Charleston or two, see where things led from there.

Then - mercifully - the train reached my stop.