Tom Brown

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Tom Brown

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 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.

I have begun to study mathematics and its applications again, and look forward to be involved in formal research and teaching.

God is in the details of the details. God is in the timing of the timing.

My stories

Sleep Paralysis

Night terrors are really terrifying and somehow always seem to come together with personal spiritual struggles in some religious setting and often...

“Out of Body Experiences”

A dark and evil terrible power holds you forcibly to your bed smothering you, you are unable to move or call out or struggle to free yourself...
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Colours of my Rainbow

From the outside above the spectrum starts with a red band and steps down to purple inside. The colours are red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo...

Many Rainbows

A real rainbow, one in the sky, comes together with rain after an afternoon shower. Usually fragments only pieces between patches cloud can be seen...
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The Wonder of a Rainbow

There it was. Glorious. Wondrous. Grand. Royal. Yesterday afternoon I saw a rainbow. It was just now and it was only the second one this year. There...

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387 of my comments have received 388 Great Feedback votes

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All's well that endds well!

Posted on Wed, 31 Jul 2019

All's well that ends well!

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Posted in Someone's Son Epilogue

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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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Posted in Someone's Son Chapter17

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I know how it

Posted on Wed, 10 Jul 2019

I know how it feels Richard, you don't know what you've got 'till its gone. Hard times. Like a cowboy & western hey?

All the best! Tom

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Posted in Baby, Come Home

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Bottles break homes

Posted on Sat, 15 Dec 2018

Bottles break homes.

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Posted in In Vino Veritas

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Gentle. Do you know

Posted on Mon, 27 May 2019

Gentle. Do you know the poem "on the marraige of a virgin" by Dylan Thomas? One of my favourite lines "the moment of a miracle is unending lightning".

Or what about Madonna for that matter! Tom

PS. Thomas Edison said women are like...

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Posted in Sensual World

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Great adventure

Posted on Sun, 19 May 2019

Great adventure, the dawn sun reflected in the water's mirror! Reminds me of my own youth the thrill of alive!

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Posted in At Lake Babine BC

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Joseph's many coloured dreamcoat hey?

Posted on Sun, 14 Apr 2019

Joseph's many coloured dreamcoat hey? You are a granddad Richard? I believe you have mentioned it so before.

Keep well! Tom

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Posted in She Looks Great

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Lovely! A dreamlike

Posted on Thu, 11 Apr 2019

Lovely! A dreamlike contemplative mood. A childlike wonder!

Your poems make me feel happy. Tom Brown

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Posted in Cone Of Enlightenment

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ssshh!

Posted on Sat, 06 Apr 2019

ssshh!

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Posted in The Sins of the Fathers

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Heaven

Posted on Sun, 31 Mar 2013

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to an inheritance imperishable, undefiled, and...

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Posted in Confession Of Faith

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