Times are lean and the spirit of make do and mend is setting in. So we've asked literary ventriloquist Mark Crick to run a series of essential DIY lessons at The School of Life next week.
The series marks the publication of Mark's new book Sartre’s Sink which seeks to remedy the neglect that the DIY genre has suffered for so long at the hands of the literary establishment. This essential household manual provides clear instruction about how to replace a window pane, bleed a radiator, put up a garden fence and replace a light switch. The book has received unduly critical comments this week from Milan Kundera who declared it 'unbearably light', Jean Paul Sartre who found it 'naeseating' and Samuel Beckett who argued it was 'not worth the wait'. We couldn't agree less and are confident next week's lessons will change the tone of the book's reception.
The lessons are free and begin at 6.15pm sharp every night.
No booking is necessary but our shop is small so turn up early if you can.
Monday 27th October
Learn to hang wallpaper in the style of Ernest Hemingway
Tuesday 28th October
Be commanded by Julius Caesar on how to put up a shelf
Wednesday 29th October
Let Anaїs Nin seduce you into painting a door
Thursday 30th October
Apply sealant round a bath following the diary of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Friday 31st October
Board up an attic with directions from Edgar Allan Poe
Once you know how to hang wallpaper, the next thing to do is to master the wallpaper hanger's trade, and to do that you must transcend the act so that the act becomes you, and so you become the act itself...or perhaps that is going too far along the DIY path...as you'll never make a master Craftsman acting like that...
Posted by: Drew Byrne | May 20, 2012 at 04:09 PM