Tom Brown
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I have 235 stories published in
22 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 208462 times
and 17 of my stories have been cherry picked.
331 of my 2,400 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 333 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.
I'm a scorpio
Posted on Sat, 20 Apr 2024
I'm a scorpio too so watch out!
Read full commentPosted in Killing Scorpio - Part Two
Not very cheerful
Posted on Sat, 24 Dec 2022
Not very cheerful, “Like a spanner in the works” is a good one, “Like a lie inside the truth” a very dangerous thing, deadly, as a half-truth, and “Like a clock that’s stopped” ominous. The chorus says it all.
“Hell” is a nice swear word...
Read full commentPosted in Like Hell
Everything is relative
Posted on Sat, 06 Apr 2024
Everything is relative hey? Eg in all sizes from astronomical to microscopic doesn't look like there's an end to it either way.
By the way a common misconception, you cannot deviate the course of a astroid with any nuclear bomb, the...
Read full commentPosted in The Can Guru Lectures #314
Wedding vows American style
Posted on Sun, 07 Apr 2024
Wedding vows American style, "as long as we both shall love". By the way don't put too much value in the "number of views" they are always suspect.
Cheers! Tom
Read full commentPosted in Holy Forever.
Psychiatric Treatment
Posted on Thu, 04 Apr 2024
This is a collection of stories of my experiences of psychiatric treatment in South Africa, I have them in order as far as I could. The stories are true.
15 years ago I was again hospitalised for four months or so and after that put in a...
Read full commentPosted in * Silver Spiral Stairway *
brothers and sisters
Posted on Mon, 16 Dec 2019
All your strength is in your union , all your danger is in discord ;
Therefore be at peace .. and as brothers live together.
~ From Hiawatha
Read full commentPosted in Our President
Clever, Jerry
Posted on Thu, 29 Feb 2024
Clever, Jerry! "Today when we go to the zoo we often look at the great apes in their cages and wonder if they think "am I my keeper's brother?" Very funny! And true.
Interesting how the story drifts as you go along.
Cheers! Tom...
Read full commentPosted in The First Murder
Very interesting Jenny
Posted on Sun, 25 Feb 2024
Very interesting Jenny, a strange world to me. I like the Afrikaans word "trekked" ! Why did you type it all in bold it's a bit harsh on the eye?
Good to see you writing, hope you're well! All the best! Tom
Read full commentPosted in The Fish Hawker
Your painting
Posted on Wed, 21 Feb 2024
Your painting looks like the Dawn Trader, you know of the Narnia stories. The poem is compact it's not so easy to read, but excellent.
And "gold was made for going to for dreams of coming from, which with any luck will never come true...
Read full commentPosted in The Long Call
Good Stuff!
Posted on Sat, 17 Feb 2024
Checked out your user page just now there is a lot of new work will take a while to read all of it. Luckily your stories are not long they are quite manageable. Brilliant! I didn't really know of it you've been so busy with the comments. You are...
Read full commentPosted in UFOs Aliens and Cover-ups
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