Who the hell is tokontologist?

[Charles Albert]

The prefix "Toco" is defined in the OED as

relating to punishment

and

parturition.


fertile ground....


love,
cfa

On 5/21/07, Ya Sam <takoitov at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> >>*Or* one who reflects upon the act itself of smoking pot?
>
> >
> >   to toke - smoke weeeeed; ontologist - one who studies the qualities of
> >being
> >
> >   tokontologist=one who reflects upon the nature of being while smoking
> >pot?
>
>
> I love your Pynchonian interpretations, guys, but unfortunately they are
> not
> correct. Musil wrote it in German, so I guess they have a different word
> for
> 'toke'. I tried to google for a possible German spelling of this science
> (i.e. Tokontologie) and here is what I found:
>
> "C. Börner, in his fundamental tocontology (whose design significance for
> all these organisms is quite well known to all biologists) has described
> (Die natürliche Schöpfungsgeschichte als Tokontologie [The natural history
> of creation as tocontology] Leipzig, Th. Weicher, 1913, 159 pgs., 10
> tables
> & 11 illus.) what gigantic dimensions of differentiation within this
> simple
> alternation alone, between merely two nuclear valencies - namely from
> haploid to diploid phase - still remain for plants and animals."
>
> http://www.professorenderlein.com
>
>
> This must have been some nonce term as it does not seem to be much in
> currency. Search for 'tocontology' yields just one result, and for
> 'tocontologist' - none at all. In the English translation of Musil's book
> it
> is 'tokontologist'. It is something biological, but it's not much clear
> what
> exactly it is.
>
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