Papa Pasteur

LOUIS PASTEUR (type scientifique)

Hermes may have brought Robbery,

but also the Scientific Method.

Introduce us O Camenae

to the pasteurizing pastor

panacea of vaccinations,

and the steps it took him to cook them,

raising worldwide awareness of the germ problem.

« Dans le champs de l’observation,

le hasard ne favorise

que les esprits préparés. »

BIOLOGY: the Studie of Life (to me) BIOS in Grekkish tong meannes Life what is meant by the LOGOS is foremost speech, discourse nay even merest utterance or disclosure but comes often enuf to signifie nowadays LOGIQ as forme of knowlege and e’en unto a Storie one may tell BIOS commes into brotherhud with Latinate VITA la vida la vie what is unliveable is said to be αβíoς (abios) in that sayme Grekkish tong.

Papa Pasteur is

Known for breakthroughs in Vaccination

Microbial fermentation

and of course PASTEURIZATION

(a controversial subject he gave his Name to)

What did he mean for the production of wine, beer, and milk?

What did he do about the anthrax in the cattle? and those earthworms?

Rabies (the Rage) Rabbits and Boy

A POX ON!—

[Louis Pasteur enters with his boy in tow, experimental subject, spewing benedictions on the sundrenched fields at morning-time, praising his Cure. Comes cowpox in procession, the livestock, and human infection: mad cows; foot and mouth. Gives you the shivers, doesn’t it? the Disease of Love and it’s Panacea. Cure. The boy as test-subject: pathway to a Miracle]

Papa Pasteur is

pioneer in the Theory of Germ Life,

innovator in Cause and Prevention

he spread his wings under

auspices of the

French Academy of Sciences

“IN THE FIELD OF OBSERVATION,

CHANCE (HAZARD)

FAVORS ONLY MINDS PREPARED.”

while positing and proposing

what about the treating of milk and wine, for You are Bacteriology itself, it’s true, but they said you were a Germophobe; I can see the logic in that. Nevertheless he considered himself a Germophile. The loving dedication and painstaking self-consecration to the tiniest of living origins: that’s microbiology in cultures. Well, it’s true, what they say about me...

—See my photo(s): the most famous taken by the illustrious French daguerreotypist NADAR [AKA Gaspard Félix Tournachon] who took pictures of many famous apparitions: it is a stunning photographic portrait where you can almost read in my eyes a stern rejection of the Theory of Spontaneous Generation:

See me fotoform—I am commonly referred to as the Father of Microbiology [because I was the most famous of its formers] OTHERS HAVE PAVED THE WAY: even if we are only reformers, I and mostly I was responsible for the Disproving of the Theory of Spontaneous Generation; however I cannot say I was first to pro-posit the Germ Theory [one of the fathers of, not the father, it had many fathers, crucible of many and various spermatozoa, like most crowning theoretical achievements].

Observe the uses of my microscopic world where I broached the study of Life in cellulose, starches, gums, sugars, tartaric and tannic acids, morphine, codeine, quinine, essences of turpentine and citron, gelatin: all these immediate principles are molecularly asymmetrical and posses a certain rotative power...

ALL SUBSTANCES MOST ESSENTIAL

IN THE ANIMAL OR VEGETABLE ORGANISM

APPEAR IN THIS LIST!

I found most essential this Rotative Power of molecules

and now

my dust perhaps my bones lie interred in a vault beneath the Institut Pasteur, my restfulness in optical isomers, my personal processes and habits are practiced by our industrial society at large, which I to the ends of my ambition have ultimately pasteurized. But remember, for I should have taught you if I taught you anything, in sealed flasks, sterilized cultures never develop their mousse; haven’t you noticed they always grow and thrive? they are mini and micro, but they are in every manner organisms, so do not disdain them or think you can eradicate them from the planet. Life is life and needs its space of biosphere, its moisture and warmth in the world is the soup of a petri dish: you need biology to fester in rates of exponential increase, who can know if it is ultimately doomed if you ever want creatures as complicated as trees and birds and sheep and goats and men. Perhaps. And biology? the λóγoς of βíoς itself? I hoped to make a big difference there, a totality, the logic of our biosphere and a language to express that: and now they taxonomize the bacteria with fluids composed of Greco-Roman particulates for precision of categorization leftover gold sifted out from the olden days, there is a catalogue of names for them. And Life (the Study of): the bio-logic itself should fashion your song, the ebb and the flow; but what does it mean to be hearing the stereochemistry in organic and inorganic chem Labs? this biologic all has something to do with amino acids or cream-‘o-tartar which is a white organic acid crystalline in form: it arises most notably in grapes TARTARIC ACID better than the purest meth, and which has helped me through all my path and in all my math

this is the sedimental source of something I call Wine-Diamonds (you could mistake these tartrates for broken glass, like rubies) nor of sealed flasks yet the fruit, the mini-fruits gone of micro-lives, merely an acid among many, but foundational to the structure of all [each and every] organic compound. It was said in the Encyclopedia that I was inseparable from various polemics and in the use of shameless deceit to supervene my Rivals, men of Science all, and well prepared to publish and to propagate; criticize me If you wish for my underhanded means—I superseded them All, and won the noble prize, from deeply in the study of fermentation and its consequences.

[Performs the Demonstration,

leaving the cows astonished;

Louis Pasteur removes hence with his experimental boy.]

CODA: Sunset Invitation, the profile of Papa Pasteur on the Prairie, he moves off into the distance, sun sloping slantwise, shepherd’s crook shielding and shedding his wisdom for sleep for the night.

My Bucolica is a modern reboot of the "eclogue" form originating in Classical Greece and Rome and much rehashed throughout all European literature. It usually comes in the form of a collection of shepherd's songs, dialogues, and stories featuring themes of love/desire, nature/the seasons, death/mortality, and the passing of time. It is often a playground to poeticize the animal world and humankind's relation to it, as well as particulars of the seemingly idyllic life led by simple shepherds and farmers in Arcadia. It is also referred to as bucolic literature. I wrote my Bucolica 2017-2018 in a mix of poetry and prose.