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{{a|toto|[[File:Olympus.jpg|thumb|center|[[Olympus]] rising like ''itself'' above somewhere in Northern Greece]]
{{a|toto|{{africapics}}}}A mountain in [[Africa]] which does not, despite what [[Toto]] would have you believe, rise like ''anything''— let alone [[Olympus]]— above the [[Serengeti]]. It rises above the [[Tsavo]].
[[File:Kilimanjaro.jpg|thumb|center|Kilimanjaro rising like ''itself'' above the ''[[Tsavo]]''.]]}}A mountain in [[Africa]] which does not, despite what [[Toto]] would have you believe, rise like ''anything''— let alone [[Olympus]]— above the [[Serengeti]]. It rises above the [[Tsavo]].


It is nowhere near the Serengeti. You cannot even ''see'' Kilimanjaro from anywhere inside the [[Serengeti]].
It is nowhere near the Serengeti. You cannot even ''see'' Kilimanjaro from anywhere inside the [[Serengeti]].


IN A CRUSHING IRONY there ''is'' one small regard in which Kilimanjaro and [[Olympus]] ''do'' resemble each other, and that is in how they do ''not'', either of them, rise above the [[Serengeti]].
IN A CRUSHING IRONY there ''is'' one small regard in which Kilimanjaro and [[Olympus]] ''do'' resemble each other, and that is in how they do ''not'', either of them, rise above the [[Serengeti]].

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Kilimanjaro rising like itself above the Tsavo.
Olympus, rising like Olympus, above — I don’t know — Thessaloniki or something.
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A mountain in Africa which does not, despite what Toto would have you believe, rise like anything— let alone Olympus— above the Serengeti. It rises above the Tsavo.

It is nowhere near the Serengeti. You cannot even see Kilimanjaro from anywhere inside the Serengeti.

IN A CRUSHING IRONY there is one small regard in which Kilimanjaro and Olympus do resemble each other, and that is in how they do not, either of them, rise above the Serengeti.