Tom Brown
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I have 232 stories published in
22 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 202207 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.
You must have a lot
Posted on Tue, 27 Aug 2019
You must have a lot of patience Richard. Live and let live hey? Must be a calling caring for the elderly.
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Terrible
Posted on Thu, 15 Aug 2019
Terrible. Unstoppable. Inevitable. A very nice poem, in a nutshell!
All the best! Tom Brown
Read full commentPosted in airmail from the amazon (august 2018)
The Amazon rainforests
Posted on Sat, 17 Aug 2019
The Amazon rainforests' wildlife you may stand a chance Luigi but you can forget about it's tribes. The western way of life the greed and yearning for comfort and ease is taking over everywhere. It seems unstoppable. As for the planting of trees...
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Excellent
Posted on Mon, 12 Aug 2019
Excellent!
Read full commentPosted in A Loaf of Bread
Beautiful except the ending
Posted on Mon, 12 Aug 2019
Beautiful except the ending? Was it really meant so? An anticlamax. It is terrible.
Read full commentPosted in A Loaf of Bread
The Internet Writer
Posted on Wed, 14 Aug 2019
Jacques also has some very practical advice and he gave me the idea of writing this post.
https://www.abctales.com/blog/baker-street/internet-writer...
Read full commentPosted in Reading prose on Abc
Beautiful Richard!
Posted on Sun, 11 Aug 2019
Beautiful Richard! I also treasure my childhood memories. Grown-ups don't apprecate how much you learn and the happiness you feel in new experiences and even in everyday life.
Keep well! Tom Brown
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Be good to people
Posted on Wed, 31 Jul 2019
Be good to people on your way up, you might meet them again when coming down. With some old bosses in mind some of them really really horrid.
I hope you are well Richard! Back to the old prose again must admit I miss the poems.
Tom...
Read full commentPosted in Where Do Young Men Go
All's well that endds well!
Posted on Wed, 31 Jul 2019
All's well that ends well!
Read full commentPosted in Someone's Son Epilogue
Looks like I've got a lot of catching up to do!
Posted on Mon, 29 Jul 2019
Looks like I've got a lot of catching up to do!
Cheers Richard! Tom Brown
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