Tom Brown
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I have 232 stories published in
22 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 202302 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.
Wonderful! I have nothing
Posted on Tue, 15 Aug 2017
Wonderful! I have nothing to add you've said it all! Tom
Read full commentPosted in Tears from Heaven
This prose I find rather erratic
Posted on Mon, 28 Aug 2017
This prose I find rather erratic and the Van Morrison quote is a bit lame. Other than that good! I could certainly not have done it better!
Read full commentPosted in Today's Impossible Lesson
Yes it should rather read
Posted on Mon, 07 Aug 2017
Yes it should rather read "You, me, Bob Dylan and Woody Guthrie" since he was a folk singer and Bob Dylan's idol and inspiration. And how does "You, I and Woody . . ." sound? It is fake this " I " business in all the movies no-one talks like that...
Read full commentPosted in You, me and Woody Guthrie
Keep the Faith!
Posted on Tue, 24 Nov 2015
Keep the Faith!
Read full commentPosted in Jacques: Whole of the Moon
a grain of sand
Posted on Tue, 27 Jun 2017
To see a world in a grain of sand
And a heaven in a wild flower
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand
And eternity in an hour
It's William Blake I think it goes like this. Poe's poetry is excellent but the stories are...
Read full commentPosted in After Inventing Poe
philosophy
Posted on Fri, 26 May 2017
This post is very interesting one gets the idea that you are talking to yourself, and with some serious philosophy. There definitely is merit the ideas are highly non-trivial.
All the best!
Read full commentPosted in Taking the Fourth
Not bad at all!
Posted on Mon, 28 Nov 2016
Fun! Not doggerel nor is your rhyme forced in any way. To me it seems incredibly hard to write good poetry that rhymes. It looks like genius or just plain luck or then even divine inspiration. Allthough I guess like anything else worthwile it is...
Read full commentPosted in Opinion - Five Reasons for Rhyme
hippies
Posted on Mon, 19 Dec 2016
The idle rich, as opposed to the idle poor.
Read full commentPosted in DOWNTOWN ABBEY edith 1970
interesting
Posted on Wed, 24 Aug 2016
This is very interesting.
Read full commentPosted in Dance in Dao
Family
Posted on Tue, 24 Nov 2015
They say you can choose your friends ... Yes all of our fates are entwined forever all of us on Abc too.
Thanks for the comment! Tom
Read full commentPosted in Jacques: Picking up pebbles
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