Tom Brown
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I have 232 stories published in
22 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 202336 times
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325 of my 2,365 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 327 votes
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.
I've read his books
Posted on Tue, 12 Jul 2022
I've read his books enjoyed them a lot Tolkien was definitely a brilliant writer. Incredibly original. Some people said the Lord of the Rings was an allegory of WW2. I don't know I can't see it.
And are you taking also of Darth Vader the...
Read full commentPosted in Alfred N.Muggins’ Response To Words Of Wisdom From Tolkien!
chasing waterfalls
Posted on Fri, 15 Jul 2022
The words of your poem cascade like a waterfall I like the style of your poem, loose thoughts strings phrases together in lovely images. Very natural rhythm. Very interesting also all the geology. We can do with more of these!
North of us...
Read full commentPosted in St Audrey's Bay Waterfall
First class
Posted on Sat, 09 Jul 2022
First class
Read full commentPosted in Twilight Zone
Every man wants her to be
Posted on Sun, 03 Jul 2022
Every man wants her to be his first love, a woman is more subtle she wants to be his last.
Practical! Good luck for the last woman! Tom
Read full commentPosted in Goldenrod and Wild Aster
A bird is made to fly
Posted on Sun, 26 Jun 2022
A bird is made to fly. Beautiful story and the boy is very kind I know people that would just chase away any kind of new friend while wallowing in self-pity for years. I've been victim myself. Good riddance and yes thank heavens and goodbye....
Read full commentPosted in And birdie moved in
Sir Isaac Newton said
Posted on Tue, 10 May 2022
Sir Isaac Newton said "the Moon is the only problem that "maketh my head to ache". She dies for two weeks and then lives once more in two in all the splendour of her pale desolate beauty, she is cold and yes, dead.
I would think a slug is...
Read full commentPosted in The Dead Want Their Moon Back
Posted on Thu, 19 May 2022
Posted in If I could paint in blue,
Smoke cloud hanging
Posted on Mon, 02 May 2022
Smoke cloud hanging yes we must have that atmosphere but now it's illegal whatever happened to freedom of association?
Good work Jenny I never took you one for Jazz! They always teach Classical music at university and Jazz. Nothing else....
Read full commentPosted in Trail Of Thought
This is lovely Jenny
Posted on Thu, 21 Apr 2022
This is lovely Jenny, so peaceful and serene it must be wonderful as you descibe it here.
All the best, keep well! Tom
Read full commentPosted in Imagine Focusing
A lovely poem
Posted on Tue, 05 Apr 2022
A lovely poem Richard, a cup full of sea!
Cheers! Tom
Read full commentPosted in Happiness is a Bonus
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