# missing Kipling epigraph *The Urth list — 2 messages, 2 voices, 04 Jul 2011* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### Jason H *04 Jul 2011, 06:07* My copy of Book of the New Sun (the two-volume Orb edition) contains epigraphs for the first three novels, but nothing for Citadel. In Castle of Days, Wolfe says that he intends to use part of a Kipling poem for the Citadel epigraph, and I've seen this in at least one edition. It works beautifully. Any idea what happened with the Orb edition? Is this just a bad error? It's a real shame, because the Kipling quote works as well as Shadow's epigraph did ("A thousand ages in thy sight..."). -Jason --- ### Matthew Keeley *04 Jul 2011, 14:15 · in reply to Jason H* I think it's just an error. The epigraph is missing in my Orb edition, but present in the more recent Gollancz "Severian of the Guild" one-volume edition. -Matt ---