AMIENS:

   Happy is your Grace,

     That can translate the stubbornness of fortune 
     Into so quiet and so sweet a style.

                 (As You Like It , II, i. 15­21)

Shakespeare speaks of a world into which, by programming, as 
it were, one can play back the materials of the natural world in 
a variety of levels and intensities of style. We are close to doing 
just this on a massive scale at the present time electronically. 
Here is the image of the golden age as one of complete 
metamorphoses or translations of nature into human art, that 
stands ready of access to our electric age. The poet Stéphane