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VenGethenian — Night Vale: Perfect
Published: 2013-12-15 14:14:46 +0000 UTC; Views: 1153; Favourites: 30; Downloads: 2
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And there was a moment. There was a moment, dear listeners, when I considered it. I considered joining Carlos and becoming perfect. But I’ve come to know something after these months together with dear Carlos.
Perfection is not real. Perfection is not human. Carlos is not perfect, no. Even better — he is imperfect.
Everything about him, and us, and all of this, is imperfect! And those imperfections in our reality are the seams and cracks into which our out-sized love can seep and pool. And sometimes we are annoyed, and disappointed, and that too is part of how love works. It is not a perfect system, but oh!
Oh, well.
And so I resisted.
I fought off the vision of the shrouded figures and the dark planet and all that was perfect and I held close to imperfection.
To my own imperfection.
To my imperfect Carlos.
I took him, and I carried him out of the cube. I came up, heaving, into this world that will disappoint us.
Finally, free.
From the apparently-not-technically-canon-yet live performance episode "Condos," which is on YouTube, here:
