{"id":22001,"date":"2011-03-26T00:00:26","date_gmt":"2011-03-26T04:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fryeblog.blog.lib.mcmaster.ca\/?p=22001"},"modified":"2011-03-26T00:00:26","modified_gmt":"2011-03-26T04:00:26","slug":"the-book-of-mormon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2011\/03\/26\/the-book-of-mormon\/","title":{"rendered":"The Book of Mormon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2011\/03\/mormon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-22002\" src=\"http:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2011\/03\/mormon.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"256\" height=\"381\" srcset=\"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2011\/03\/mormon.jpg 388w, https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2011\/03\/mormon-202x300.jpg 202w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 256px) 100vw, 256px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Book_of_Mormon\" target=\"_blank\">The Book of Mormon<\/a> <\/em>was first published on this date in 1830.<\/p>\n<p>We posted on Trey Parker and Matt Stone&#8217;s new musical, <em>The Book of Mormon<\/em>, yesterday. \u00a0You can watch their <em>South Park<\/em> episode, &#8220;All About Mormons,&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/videosift.com\/video\/History-of-Mormonism-by-South-Park\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Complementing the satire of Parker and Stone, here&#8217;s a pertinent observation on parody, with the Book of Mormon cited, in Notebook 44:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>All irony, whether of content or of form, is relative to a norm, and is unintelligible without the norm. It seems essential to keep on saying this is an age of &#8220;deconstruction,&#8221; where the illusion grows up that the norms are no longer there. <em>Tristram Shandy <\/em>was &#8220;odd&#8221; to Johnson and &#8220;typical&#8221; to some Russian formalist [Victor Shklovsky], but it&#8217;s not typical of anything but a fashion. (When parody becomes very fashionable, the illusion grows up that the norms have disappeared.)<\/p>\n<p>I suppose the Mormon Bible is a parody of the lost histories of the great civilizations that came pouring over the Bering Straits into the New World. (CW 5, 205-6)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Book of Mormon was first published on this date in 1830. We posted on Trey Parker and Matt Stone&#8217;s new musical, The Book of Mormon, yesterday. \u00a0You can watch their South Park episode, &#8220;All About Mormons,&#8221; here. 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