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 ''I know that I must do what’s right'' <br>
-''As sure as Kilimanjaro rises like Olympus above the Serengeti''<ref>{{tag|Toto}}, ''{{tag|Africa}}'', allegedly by David Paich (well: no one ''else'' in {{tag|Toto}} seems prepared to claim responsibility for it).</ref> <br>
+''As sure as [[Kilimanjaro]] rises like [[Olympus]] above the [[Serengeti]]''<ref>Written, allegedly by [[David Paich]] (well: no one ''else'' in {{tag|Toto}} seems prepared to claim responsibility for it).</ref>}}
-[[File:Kilimanjaro.jpg|thumb|Kilimanjaro rising like ''itself'' above the ''Tsavo''.]]
+Where to start?
-[[File:Olympus.jpg|thumb|Olympus, rising like Olympus, above - I don't know - Thessaloniki or something.]]
-Where to start? Kilimanjaro doesn’t rise above the Serengeti. You can't even ''see'' it from the Serengeti, unless you get in a hot air balloon and take a telescope - They're about 300km from each other. Mount Olympus ''definitely'' doesn't rose above the Serengeti. It’s in Greece. To the extent you could say that something that has just sat there for millions of years, does anything as energetic as "rising", then Kilimanjaro doesn’t rise ''like'' Olympus either.  They don’t look anything like each other.
+For one thing, [[Kilimanjaro]] ''doesn’t'' rise above the [[Serengeti]]. (It rises above the [[Tsavo]] National Park. Why, you might wonder, ''didn’t'' he put “Tsavo”? It would have scanned better.) You can’t even ''see'' it from the [[Serengeti]], unless you get in a hot air balloon and take a telescope: they’re about 250 kilometres from each other. A correspondent writes with photographic evidence, in the panel: you can barely see Kilimanjaro from Mount Meru, 70 km away in the Arusha National Park, let alone from Serengeti, three times further away.
-And we haven't even got onto the fact that the line doesn’t scan.
+And not just because it is a long way away. It is ''literally'' over the horizon. Let’s be fully scientific about this. From the ground, all but the top 900 metres of a 6,000 metre mountain would be over the horizon.<ref>Check it out for yourself at [https://www.omnicalculator.com/physics/earth-curvature this earth curvature calculator].</ref> 900 metres at 250km would appear about 4mm high, if you could even see it through nearby trees (with or without napping [[leopress]]es), haze, atmospheric perspective etc. This is not really rising at ''all'', let alone majestically, like Olympus might (if it weren’t already rising above a national park in Greece, of course).
+And Mount Olympus ''definitely'' doesn’t rise above the [[Serengeti]]. It’s in Greece.
+To the extent you could say that something that has just sat there for millions of years does anything as energetic as “rising”, then [[Kilimanjaro]] doesn’t rise ''like'' [[Olympus]], either. It rises like [[Kilimanjaro]]. They ''don’t'' look anything like each other. I mean, ''look''.
+And we haven’t even got onto the fact that THE LINE DOESN’T SCAN FOR CRYING OUT LOUD.