Or maybe, in our post-modern age, current cults just keep referring to the past.

There are indicators that these configurations may disappear or transform again in a post-modern age.

And that quirkiness seems the perfect way to approach the imminent destruction of the planet in a post-modern age.

In this post-modern age, it is once again beautiful.

But for better (say many) or worse (say modernists), we're in a post-modern age now.

In the post-modern age, Disney World is the quintessential Other, intensifying or providing alternatives to reality with thrill-seeking rides and approximations of exotic locales.

Perhaps it's passe in this post-modern age to uphold such old-fashioned virtues as valor, intellect and honor.

"I guess part of the whole thing with the post-modern age is not only did I write a book like that, but I wrote a book about books," he said.

To these children of the post-modern, media-drenched age, is recording the moment more important than participating in it?

In a post-modern, postnuclear, synthetic age, he embodies a pure American type: the salesman.