missing Kipling epigraph
The Urth list — 2 messages, 2 voices, 04 Jul 2011
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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

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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

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