Tom Brown
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I have 230 stories published in
21 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 198673 times
and 16 of my stories have been cherry picked.
320 of my 2,335 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 322 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.
delightful walk
Posted on Wed, 13 Dec 2023
A delightful walk! Strenuous I would say, rather an endurence event. See you! Tom
Read full commentPosted in Tumbling river and tangled footpath
Most people would need
Posted on Wed, 29 Nov 2023
Most people would need amphetamines or some strong stimulant to to stay awake so long. Not good. The idea of dance lessons that's excellent, most people on a dance floor don't have a clue.
Just random partners making out publicly at the...
Read full commentPosted in Crazy! Crazy Days and Nights
Tommy come home!
Posted on Wed, 22 Jul 2009
Dear, dear, what can the matter be? Is Tommy still at the fair?
Oh dear, what can the matter be?
When, when oh when will Tommy be home?
Posted in A mathematical defence
State Transport
Posted on Sat, 21 Oct 2023
If you enjoyed this you should read the story “A full force gale” it is also in my set Shosholoza!
This all was around 2002 the first admission was 1987, and then 2009 but I don't plan...
Read full commentPosted in Nkosi Bayete!
And I say to myself
Posted on Sun, 15 Oct 2023
And I say to myself, what a wonderful world!
See you! Tom
Read full commentPosted in I Love
Northern Muse
Posted on Sat, 07 Oct 2023
If you liked the story on Dr Frank you should also read “A dweller on the threshold” in my set Shosholoza!
Posted in Strange Places
I wonder how many
Posted on Wed, 11 Oct 2023
I wonder how many families still sit around a table for meals? It is sad. It is part of ages old rituals an integral part of society and life. I know from when I lived alone, especially supper it felt so wierd and spooky on your own.
And...
Read full commentPosted in 6 (?) to dinner
Blade Runner
Posted on Wed, 25 Jan 2017
Oscar Pistorius with nickname “Blade Runner”, as South African athlete participated in international sprinting events. Both his legs were amputated just below the knee, he has carbon-fibre prostheses.
A career of remarkable sporting...
Read full commentPosted in Disabilities and Employment
Very sensitive
Posted on Thu, 05 Oct 2023
Very sensitive Richard, you know what a guy wants! Tom
Read full commentPosted in A Little Child
I think there are forests
Posted on Mon, 04 Sep 2023
I think there are forests in Magoebaskloof and Blyderivier Canyon but they are partly destroyed to make way for alien plantations, which are stone dead not a mouse stirring, total silence. The Knysna forest Jacques spoke of must be incredible the...
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