Tom Brown

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Tom Brown

South-African, studied in Pretoria at Unisa and UP, I went to a dual medium primary school and Afrikaans high school, NG Church mostly and sunday school Methodist. At school achieved top positions in science and mathematics olympiads, after as well completing two years of engineering studies with very good results but I did not graduate, had to stop due to mental health difficulties.

Graduating under WK Bartoszek MSc (1997) and N Sauer PhD (2006) formal interests would be in abstract analysis and broadly applied mathematics. I had permanent teaching positions at Unisa and at Wits, However since not having been academically active, and as such absent from formal academic research for very long now, years even.

I am  still totally isolated and financially barely getting by. Although I am still studying mathematics and applications, more popular accessible kind of work, while looking forward to hopefully be active in research and teaching again.

Not involved at all with any social media, and having time for writing, leisure, watching movies, reading fiction, classics mostly, and  music. I miss my friends, and would really love getting outdoors and in nature more.

These are my stories!

Keep your feet on the ground and reach for the Stars!

My stories

Escape of the Boer Swimmers

During the South African War (October 1899 – May 2002) many Boers were taken prisoner and exiled by the British Army. Most of the prisoner of war...

Class of '84

Also your greatest of all advantage in a chess game is to have your opponent underestimate you. Myself don't attend reunions I'm usually busy then,...

Gospel Concert

We went to some gospel concerts at the rugby stadium it was Don Francisco he never asked entrance fees only donations, even for the songs, free on...

President In Office

Mr Cyril Rhamaphosa Do not underestimate the responsibility on his shoulders, let us try and understand the difficulty and directly conflicting...
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Checkmate!

Super-Sneaker had won the prize for the best school attendance with no absence at all for the twelve school years, at the opening when it was...

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401 of my comments have received 403 Great Feedback votes

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Chalk and cheese

Posted on Fri, 15 Aug 2025

Chalk and cheese, six or half-a-dozen? Experimenting!? Some people say procrastination is really just laziness Luigi? I don't think so the real reason is often perfectionism, it goes a bit deeper. A serious handicap in any case.

Good luck...

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Posted in My Best Mate and I

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lovely words, beautiful images

Posted on Thu, 14 Aug 2025

Jenny! What beautiful language! Such as "vast oceans of sky" ; "crystal rainbows of delight".

Inspired for sure! Tom

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Posted in Fragments Of Life

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breathtaking

Posted on Wed, 13 Aug 2025

Lovely, breathtaking, I wish I could see them for myself! We have them in the southern hemisphere too, called "Southern Lights" then? or "Southern Aurora"?

You would have to be a lot more south, and if you are very lucky too, I hear...

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Posted in Borealis

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collecting postcards

Posted on Tue, 12 Aug 2025

collecting postcards

Rhiannon when I was in school I collected postcards my mother helped me find penpals overseas to write and swop and that. The one man was in Russia he was in a bit of danger actually, remember it was in the time of the...

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Posted in Discovered old postcards

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a lot worse

Posted on Mon, 28 Jul 2025

You get a lot worse than that believe me.

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Posted in The Watchers In The Walls

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Bind us Together

Posted on Sun, 03 Aug 2025

Bind us together Lord, bind us together Lord
Bind us together, bind us together with Love

Bind us, bind us together Lord bind us together Lord
Bind us together with chords that cannot be broken

Bind...

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Posted in Jesus Christ divides!

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Romance

Posted on Fri, 01 Aug 2025

The harp is beuatiful I like panflute also, like a really grand date, an anniversary leaving the kids with parents and that, to re-discover true romance!

The story where King Saul threw David with his spear just as he was bending down also...

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Posted in Crafted and Mastered

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Good story Jenny!

Posted on Thu, 24 Jul 2025

Good story Jenny! "whispered through threads of conversation",

All the best! Tom

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Posted in Hollyhock Tears Or Whispers Of Gods.

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Yes these days

Posted on Mon, 28 Jul 2025

Yes these days you can forget about privacy the whole world may just as well looking, not even for a bit of quiet relief. Like being on reality TV all the time.

Excellent story Jess, but I would have liked a bit more context, although you...

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Posted in The Watchers In The Walls

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A violin is a bit

Posted on Tue, 29 Jul 2025

A violin is a bit of a valuable item to be left lying around!

See you Rhiannon! Tom

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Posted in My Absent-Minded Violinist

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