A huge parcel of modernity was delivered. We tried it on, paraded around in it and eventually caught sight of ourselves in the looking glass. We got to work with the scissors and refitted it around ourselves, shaping it to the hand-me-downs of our own collective experiences: to the pre-existing conditions of national and religious identity, to the realities of our geography as part both of an archipelago with its own very specific historic entanglements and of a wider Europe,
