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I now come to almost
scientific points.

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I always did find it very
difficult or impossible

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to render anything from the, so
to say, "scientific feelings"

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from the scientific
frustration in poetry.

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So the second poem
in the microscope

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is frequently quoted as my
typical scientific poem.

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I would say it's as
scientific as any other.

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But this one is
about a real event.

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"Distant howling."

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"In Alsace, on July
6, 1885, a rabid dog

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knocked Joseph Meister
down and bit him 14 times.

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Meister was the first patient
saved by Pasteur vaccine

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in 13 gradually increase the
doses of the weakened virus.

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Pasteur died of
ictus 10 years later.

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50 years later, the
watchman Meister

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committed suicide
when the Germans

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occupied Pasteur's Institute
including the poor dogs.

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Only the virus
never got involved."

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