Tom Brown
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I have 232 stories published in
22 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 202387 times
and 17 of my stories have been cherry picked.
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.
The Eagle
Posted on Fri, 27 Mar 2020
You outdid yourself this time Richard, masterful! Do you now this poem by Lord Tennyson?
The Eagle
He clasps the crag with crooked hands; close to the sun in lonely lands, ring'd with the azure world, he stands. The wrinkled sea...
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"His eyes are saying goodbye"
Posted on Mon, 23 Mar 2020
"His eyes are saying goodbye", you are capable of very sensitive very tender writing Richard. But some of this is a little puzzling one should have a bit more background I think.
All the best! Goodnight!
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Heartbreaking
Posted on Sun, 22 Mar 2020
Heartbreaking
Read full commentPosted in He Knew
Certainly good advice
Posted on Sat, 21 Mar 2020
Certainly good advice Richard and practical. There is a similar poem by Rudyard Kipling.
Hope you are well! Tom
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It's difficult to ask forgiveness
Posted on Wed, 18 Mar 2020
It's difficult to ask forgiveness for sins you know you will commit. Nobody knows the trouble I've seen, nobody knows ...
Thanks Richard!
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Yes I have noticed Richard
Posted on Tue, 03 Mar 2020
Yes I have noticed Richard and it makes a lot of sense. You leave the pauses and stops, feelings and nuances over to the reader it makes everything much more natural and fluent. The interpretations are lot more flexible as such.
The...
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The free rhyme
Posted on Tue, 03 Mar 2020
The free ryme is beautiful it is always so much more natural than fixed patterns, that is better left to the masters.
Your sentiments are wonderful Richard! Tom
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Lead me
Posted on Sun, 08 Mar 2020
Lead me in your rightious ways. Search me o God, and know my heart.
No privacy here hey?! You cannot decieve yourself you cannot hide anything. But He is not only watching us but also always watches over us!
Have a great week...
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One of my friends
Posted on Sat, 07 Mar 2020
One of my friends says you must have balls to be gay, yes I can imagine.
All the best! More of a lesbian myself! Tom
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The difference
Posted on Fri, 28 Feb 2020
The difference is the size of their toys. My very earliest memories are of little toy matchbox cars and later on skalectrix and posters. It was a great treat we usually got a new one as remorse of the dads after your hiding.
Frogs and...
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