The Buried Giant: Gawain's Second Reverie & Chapter Fifteen

The theme of our penultimate selection, I suppose, is that most amnesia is of the voluntary kind. But what has been buried has a way of being exposed. A cairn is merely a pile of rocks, assembled for some purpose, often as memorials to the dead. In The Buried Giant, we’ve come to the giant’s cairn in search of Querig; the giant, presumably, is the one t…