beginning point (the opening up and storming of the wall of the Bastille prison in Paris with all its egalitarian fervor). It closed with a precise moment of collapse (the literal fall of a highly symbolic visible concrete wall in Berlin that the entire world watched tumble). The end of modernity can be timed precisely to the exact hour, even instant, of the fall of that wall in Germany.19 While not everyone would agree with Oden’s precise dating of the transition of the modern to postmodern periods,