My distinct impression is that Avi Steinberg hopes to be able to say in twenty years, â??I liked The Book of Mormon before it was cool.â?
And why not? Itâ??s not impossible that, in the coming generation, The Book of Mormon could be â??inâ?. Much more embarrassing fads have seized Americaâ??s popular imagination, from all-protein diets to M. Night Shyamalan to oxygen bars to Seattle. Plenty of us have hung our hats on something silly in the desperate hope that itâ??ll be â??inâ? just long enough for us to say, derisively, that was so yesterday to the folks who held off until a crowd had gathered.
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