Tom Brown

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I have 230 stories published in 21 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 198884 times and 16 of my stories have been cherry picked.
320 of my 2,338 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 322 votes

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Tom Brown

Apart from studies in the natural sciences I am interested in languages and literature in general as well as religion. Lately I have been writing more popular general interest essays and also trying for a bit of balance with mathematics and while keeping things understandable for most people.

I am South-African born and bred. At high school I excelled in science and mathematics competitions and completed two years of mechanical engineering with very good results. That didn't work out due to ill health. I have had permanent teaching positions at Unisa and at Wits.

Graduating with an MSc under WK Bartoszek (Unisa 1997) and a PhD under N Sauer (Pretoria 2006) formal interests would be in abstract analysis: Markov operators and stochastic processes; vector valued Laplace transforms applied to semigroups and families of evolution equations (empathies). It has now been quite a while since I was academically active I don't have much published. The way things have developed was beyond my control and I am very isolated.

Favourite authors are Jules Verne, HG Wells and Jack London, Shakespeare and poets William Blake and Dylan Thomas. I like adventure, science fiction and fantasy movies my all time greatest are the Narnia stories and the Lord of the Rings.

The meal best enjoyed is a breakfast of bacon eggs on toast fried chips with fresh orange juice, and for supper an ox-tail stew. I like eating out romantic. For recreation nature hikes, camping and fishing, listening to good music and reading, classics mostly, and good movies. I love dogs my best one was a Maltese poodle Freddy. I love rain and lightning thunderstorms and rainbows. As well as writing and publishing here on Abctales.

God is in the details. God is in the timing.

My stories

Two Rainbows

Just now after a summer shower we saw a rainbow it was very low because it was still early afternoon. It was beautiful the sun was still quite high...
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Cherry

Fit For Work

Disabilities in the workplace Amazing things like miracles do happen I think of a friend's son. His parents thought he was disobedient, stubborn and...

The Nature of Truth

The fundamental questions we must ask are: What , How , Why ? “What?” concerns physical observations and experiments, and records kept, consisting of...
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The Black Dog

Jet fuel and petrol are ethanol, that is ethyl alcohol. It is highly combustible and surgical alcohol is generally used for disinfecting killing...

A Christmas Rainbow

There was a rainbow monday afternoon there was a rain shower I went outside and there it was. I was surprised I'd only vaguely hoped. The full...
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320 of my comments have received 322 Great Feedback votes

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Something new

Posted on Tue, 06 Feb 2024

Something new from you, excellent. I especially like "Why not the flight of angels bring alight in rainbow colors?" but I do realise this is not quite the mood of the poem.

See you! Tom

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Posted in "Oneiroi" (Greek myth - gods of dream)

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monkey

Posted on Sun, 27 Sep 2009

the dude is a monkey

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Posted in the dude

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Amazing

Posted on Sat, 27 Jan 2024

Amazing, the photo looks typical Africa scene, maybe lowveld. I zoomed in there's just one thing that puzzles me, All the shades? or a road or what? Maybe your camera flap?

All the best! Tom Brown

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Posted in Above Weobley

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Purple rain

Posted on Wed, 12 Apr 2023

Purple rain, the belief was that if a flower falls on your head you will do well in your final exams. Probably would have worked better if you studied instead of standing underneath a Jacaranda tree all day. Apart from that the purple flowers...

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Posted in April Blossom

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Oscar Pistorius

Posted on Fri, 05 Jan 2024

Very tragic, but few people overseas would no what you spoke of: Reeva Steenkamp was murdered by her boyfriend the disabled athlete Oscar Pistorius who was imprisoned for only 10 years in the end and released on parole on 5 Jan. People feel he...

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Posted in Reeva Rebecca Steenkamp.

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Do you know

Posted on Sat, 30 Dec 2023

Do you know the hard rock star Alice Cooper? Made me think of "no more mr nice guy".

Keep well Turlough! Cheers! Tom

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Posted in Goody Two Shoes

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Shame yes poor

Posted on Sun, 24 Dec 2023

Shame yes poor aardvark with nothing to eat for the trip either with only two ants on the boat. Tom

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Posted in Noah's Ark

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Thank-you Jenny!

Posted on Wed, 20 Dec 2023

Merry Christmas Jenny! And to your people, and thank you for the kindness and encouragement through 2023!

Tom Brown

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Posted in Charms Of The Season

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Life is feast or famine

Posted on Wed, 20 Dec 2023

Life is feast or famine, why should we examine famine more than feast! - Fiddler on the roof

From me and also to Abctales, Have a Wonderful Christmas! Tom

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Posted in A Christmas Rainbow

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Thanks Jacques!

Posted on Wed, 20 Dec 2023

Thanks Jacques! Every cloud has a silver lining!

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Posted in A Christmas Rainbow

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