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Although he is a Briton, Ivor is the mayor of a Saxon town that Beatrice frequently travels to with other women from the warren. Ivor and Beatrice are friends, and when she and Axl stop in the town on their way to find their son, Ivor lets them stay the night in his home. While they are there, they see Ivor give directions to Wistan and a band of other men to go beyond the gates to find Edwin, who has been taken by ogres. Ivor believes the reason for everyone’s forgetfulness is because God himself has forgotten their pasts, and mere human beings cannot remember what God forgets. Beatrice is impressed with this explanation and adopts it, believing that God wants to forget the past because He’s so ashamed of it.
Ivor Quotes in The Buried Giant
The The Buried Giant quotes below are all either spoken by Ivor or refer to Ivor. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 3
Quotes
“It was just a thought. That perhaps God is angry about something we’ve done. Or maybe he’s not angry, but ashamed.”
“A curious thought, princess. But if it’s as you say, why doesn’t he punish us? Why make us forget like fools even things that happened the hour before?”
“Perhaps God’s so deeply ashamed of us, of something we did, that he’s wishing himself to forget. And as the stranger told Ivor, when God won’t remember, it’s no wonder we’re unable to do so.”
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Ivor Quotes in The Buried Giant
The The Buried Giant quotes below are all either spoken by Ivor or refer to Ivor. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Chapter 3
Quotes
“It was just a thought. That perhaps God is angry about something we’ve done. Or maybe he’s not angry, but ashamed.”
“A curious thought, princess. But if it’s as you say, why doesn’t he punish us? Why make us forget like fools even things that happened the hour before?”
“Perhaps God’s so deeply ashamed of us, of something we did, that he’s wishing himself to forget. And as the stranger told Ivor, when God won’t remember, it’s no wonder we’re unable to do so.”
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