“Sea Lions”

“At night the sea lions’ braying echoed across the water and through the bedroom window. Sea lions bray like barking dogs with laryngitis, like antique clown horns, but ones that are much deflated, like those people who laugh by inhaling air, nearly choking, making a sort of hitch in the back of their throat that hits the palate. And they did it in choruses, as if an absurd convention of throat-infected mutts had invaded the gathering of strange laughers and they had all decided to eject rubbery guffaws out upon the violated airwaves. Another odd effect of the performance was that one of the creatures invariably seemed to begin his rubbery eructation immediately after his mate’s had issued forth, setting up an iambic bellow-beat difficult to dance to. Living by the ocean had always seemed to me like sleeping on the breast of some great cosmic goddess. I had spent time in Fort Lauderdale, Biarritz, Encinitas, and now Santa Cruz, ever drawn to the wide wonder that the ocean represented.”

Richard Maddox

Richard Dietrich Maddox's writing focuses on the search for permanent happiness, the goal of finding paradise on earth, the attainment of human Enlightenment. His work, though fiction, attempts to convey the profound spiritual Truth passed on to humanity by Enlightened Masters. Maddox approaches spiritual wisdom from a Western level of experience, presenting characters to whom readers can easily relate, offering situations in which readers might well have found themselves. His work offers, in a style which those living in the West will find understandable, the possibility of blissful existence.

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