Beautiful People

By Tom Brown

 

Rainbow Soldiers

 

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A mathematical defence

By Tom Brown on Wed, 22 Jul 2009

Having grown up in a rural Afrikaner community Prof Sauer once told me the following story:
Autobiography
Story
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A Tribute to Selby Logan

By Tom Brown on Tue, 17 Feb 2015

In Memory of Selby Logan ( 1934 – 2007 ) Pretoria , August 2007 (Originally) Thank-you for the privilege to speak on behalf of the Brown family. To...
Autobiography
Non-fiction
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Jacques: Picking up pebbles

By Tom Brown on Tue, 24 Nov 2015

Picking up pebbles and throwing them into the sea See the days of my childhood The white foam comes washing them all back to me When he was still a...
Biography
Story
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Jacques: Whole of the Moon

By Tom Brown on Tue, 24 Nov 2015

My brother is a lover and a poet, an unashamed dreamer with a brilliant fearless imagination. I saw the crescent, you saw the whole of the Moon –...
Biography
Story
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Love & Chess

By Tom Brown on Sun, 26 Nov 2017

Chess is the ultimate board game but one could easily overdo it. Especially youngsters because the ambition always is to be the best, to be world...
Autobiography
Story
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Mamma

By Tom Brown on Sat, 04 May 2019

She worked for the education department for more than forty years. At the start it was mostly private companies and computer programming. These were...
Autobiography
Non-fiction
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Mr B and The E.

By Tom Brown on Thu, 17 Jan 2013

The Kruger Park Just graduated and full of love of abstraction enthusiasm and vigour I attended my first conference, paid for entirely with saved pocket money.
Autobiography
Story
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Mr P and Mr B

By Tom Brown on Sun, 10 Mar 2019

There I fell in love with his daughter but soon found him much more interesting company. Since my friends and those guys said he was a master “ 'n...
Biography
Story
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My Father

By Tom Brown on Sat, 06 Dec 2014

My father could be a pig. My father was fat and sweaty and shiny. He was a slob. He was dirty, ugly and nasty, crude and obscene. He could get rowdy...
Autobiography
Non-fiction
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The Mathematician

By Tom Brown on Wed, 29 Jul 2020

One could go to his office with a problem anytime. It was correspondence university so there weren't too many students to be a bother. You could ask...
Biography
Biography
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19th Hole

By Tom Brown on Fri, 24 Dec 2021

Tried golf I never really understood the rules, except for the 19th hole but always got a high score. It's a senseless pastime I was more into...
Autobiography
Story
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The Engineers

By Tom Brown on Sun, 05 Jun 2022

Jacks is the only guy I know of who hit a lecturer. Jacks is a big strong man they had an argument he punched the guy in the face with the fist. Look...
Biography
Non-fiction
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SuperSneaker

By Tom Brown on Fri, 20 Jan 2023

One friday after school I was short a player for a league match the guy dropped me I had to fill my team. The Sneaker joked he knew the moves I put...
Autobiography
Story
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The escape artist

By Tom Brown on Fri, 12 Apr 2024

Budgies don't sing but a happily chit-chatter hopping around all the time chatting pleasantly very much like sparrows. A brain as big as half a pea a...
Autobiography
Story
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The Oupa and the Sea

By Tom Brown on Sun, 21 Apr 2024

My Afrikaans Grandfather Beer and jokes weekend golf and holidays and practising his swing, they said his drive wasn't so far but it was straight. He...
Autobiography
Story
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The Carrot and Stick

By Tom Brown on Thu, 23 May 2024

I am being motivated by the carrot and the stick. It works. It is the law of the concrete jungle. We've had all kinds, tomatoes pumpkins peanuts...
Humour
Nature
Inspiration Point (work that responds to our weekly writing cue)
Story
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A virtuous Woman

By Tom Brown on Mon, 03 Jun 2024

To be young a bride your beauty must not be of jewels gold adorning and braiding hair, beauty is vain charm is deceit, favour is fickle, beauty fades...
Spiritual
Love
Story
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The Enigma

By Tom Brown on Sun, 11 Aug 2024

Alan Turing (1912 – 54) “ I propose to consider the question 'Can machines think? ” The British mathematician Alan Turing is considered to be greatly...
Biography
Non-fiction
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The Tiger

By Tom Brown on Tue, 13 Aug 2024

You should realise the difference between how someone is addressed and what you call him. For example you might speak of someone as “Mr Brown” but...
Other Non-fiction
Humour
Biography
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Empathy

By Tom Brown on Sat, 28 Sep 2024

Having been accused of reckless driving, once we were working the whole morning and getting tired, Prof Sauer said call it a day for lunch I said “...
Autobiography
Story
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