The Mormon dislike of realism is the rage of Caliban seeing his own face in the glass.
The Mormon dislike of metaphor is the rage of Caliban not seeing his own face in the glass.
That's something I figured out from thinking about The Book of Mormon musical, and it's also why art produced by Mormons for Mormons is such useless crap.
with thanks to Oscar Wilde and his preface to The Picture of Dorian Gray.
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