In these books, the imagestransform the painted page, with ever more inventive borders and miniatures crowding out the almost redundant words and showing the reader a vision of the Bible.
But the new threat is the ability to transform that creature into images of our own choosing, without regard to whether the new creature is going to be an improvement, or whether these so-called improvements are going to sap all of the energies of the soul that make for human aspirations, art, science and care for the less fortunate.