Precession and MD

[Jeremy Osner]

Kim L. Serkes wrote:
> 
> At 8:51 AM -0500 9/10/97, Amy Elias wrote:
> 
> > [...] has anyone noted that the word "precession"
> > [...] also refers
> >to astronomy?  Is MD merging these two meanings of
> >the word?
> 
> I think it's safe to say he's using both meanings, yes...
> 

This note brings to mind Kipling's "Just So Stories" (in which 
he refers frequently to the "precession of the equinoxes"), and
reminds me to mention that it was one of my favorite books as a
child.

Jeremy
(who, while riding his bicycle down the street on Sunday, managed
to think of Jan and Dean at exactly the same moment as he thought
of Robyn Hitchcock, and started murmuring to himself, "Everybody's
saying that there's nobody cleaner than the little old lady from
Pasadena...")