missing Kipling epigraph

Jason H · 04 Jul 2011, 06:07 · from 2011-July.txt.gz

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From: beet31425 at gmail.com (Jason H)
Date: Sun, 3 Jul 2011 23:07:24 -0700
Subject: (urth) missing Kipling epigraph
Message-ID: <CA+ovik3N1m54yym7WM+ZyhkHFkL=2ni4CHrYV0dNYN3Q+tCqdw at mail.gmail.com>

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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