Everyone's All Like "oooh, Garak Is So Mysterious" "Garak Is An Undecipherable Enigma". No He's Not,

especially the lies the truth is oozing out of every lie he tells what i especially love about asit is the bit where remara is gonna kill him and he tells her an obvious lie about his trying to stop her husband and sons death. and he (internally ofc) makes a comment to the affect of having trouble keeping all the stories straighf so its like the whole book could be a lie to some degree. but that doesnt even matter. what matters is that the sentimates behind every line are painfully true. its suggested he doesnt even know the complete truth of his life anymore. but does the story of ones life in actuality really matter more than the story as the narrator sees it. isnt that the real truth anyway. when you look at the shit he says through this lense. yea he is constantly bearing his whole soul to anyone that’ll listen he doesn’t just have a ‘need for conversation’ he has a need to be open and honest in the only capacity he can be hes practically screaming at everyone he meets to /see/ him. to please see beyond fhe obfuscation. to listen and hear what hes really saying when youre whole life has been built on a house of cards filled with lies you have to get creative if you want to engage in the mortal ordeal of being known this is why him and bashir latch on to eachother. bashir can spot that shit from a mile awayeven if he doesnt fully know what hes looking at at first. he just gets the sense of what garak is trying to tell him. the mystery draws him in at first. but once he gets close enough he goes ‘oh. oh yea me too. i see you. i see the burden youve been forced to cary and what its done to u.does that mean you can see me too?’