Cambridge Noir

Excerpts from the film noir crime-comedy-thriller I will never direct ...

Posts tagged sculpture

Mar 14
Not everyone in the museum was delighted with their new quarters.

(The gumshoe is on hiatus. This case note was first taken on 2 August 2012.)

Not everyone in the museum was delighted with their new quarters.

(The gumshoe is on hiatus. This case note was first taken on 2 August 2012.)


Mar 8
I’d finally found the hidden sanctum of the Potsherd Club, the archaeological elite of Cambridge. These were hard men and women. Hard men and women with tiny trowels and brushes.
 
(The gumshoe is on hiatus. This casenote was first taken on 27 June 2012.)

I’d finally found the hidden sanctum of the Potsherd Club, the archaeological elite of Cambridge. These were hard men and women. Hard men and women with tiny trowels and brushes.

 

(The gumshoe is on hiatus. This casenote was first taken on 27 June 2012.)


Feb 26
Fortunately, failures in the Yuggoth Containment Field at the Department of Paranormal Studies normally manifested as modern sculpture.

(The gumshoe is on hiatus. This casenote was first taken on 22 May 2012.)

Fortunately, failures in the Yuggoth Containment Field at the Department of Paranormal Studies normally manifested as modern sculpture.

(The gumshoe is on hiatus. This casenote was first taken on 22 May 2012.)


Feb 20
Colleagues felt the sculpture captured the bursar’s face perfectly, both of them.

(The gumshoe is on hiatus. This casenote was first taken on 18 May 2012.)

Colleagues felt the sculpture captured the bursar’s face perfectly, both of them.

(The gumshoe is on hiatus. This casenote was first taken on 18 May 2012.)


Feb 11
The sculpture was, I reflected, like the librarians within: tall, made of iron and quite tough enough to take out a careless cyclist.

(The gumshoe is on hiatus. This casenote was first taken on 18 April 2012.)

The sculpture was, I reflected, like the librarians within: tall, made of iron and quite tough enough to take out a careless cyclist.

(The gumshoe is on hiatus. This casenote was first taken on 18 April 2012.)


Dec 4
In Cambridge, most polite notices are backed with lethal force. 

In Cambridge, most polite notices are backed with lethal force. 


Sep 28
Cambridge: a town where even saints and scientists are regularly found behind bars …

Cambridge: a town where even saints and scientists are regularly found behind bars …


Aug 17
In the still, cool light of dawn the brick and concrete back blocks of Cambridge are not without a certain sinister charm. 

In the still, cool light of dawn the brick and concrete back blocks of Cambridge are not without a certain sinister charm. 


Aug 2
Not everyone in the museum was delighted with their new quarters.

Not everyone in the museum was delighted with their new quarters.


Jul 16
Lady Justice had, it seemed, a fairly casual attitude to affairs in Cambridge.

Lady Justice had, it seemed, a fairly casual attitude to affairs in Cambridge.


Jun 27
I’d finally found the hidden sanctum of the Potsherd Club, the archaeological elite of Cambridge. These were hard men and women. Hard men and women with tiny trowels and brushes.

I’d finally found the hidden sanctum of the Potsherd Club, the archaeological elite of Cambridge. These were hard men and women. Hard men and women with tiny trowels and brushes.


Jun 12
The sculptures of recent Masters captured perfectly the College’s spirit of innovation.

The sculptures of recent Masters captured perfectly the College’s spirit of innovation.


Jun 6
“Smacking the horse” has a rather different meaning in Cambridge.

“Smacking the horse” has a rather different meaning in Cambridge.


May 22
Fortunately, failures in the Yuggoth Containment Field at the Department of Paranormal Studies normally manifested as modern sculpture.

Fortunately, failures in the Yuggoth Containment Field at the Department of Paranormal Studies normally manifested as modern sculpture.


May 18
Colleagues felt the sculpture captured the bursar’s face perfectly, both of them.

Colleagues felt the sculpture captured the bursar’s face perfectly, both of them.


Page 1 of 2