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...view include a stuffed ocelot, a stuffed owl and a stuffed boar (Serra's wife is an amateur taxidermist), bidets crammed with conch shells, beaten-up boxing gloves, and broom bristles. Of his crass menagerie, Serra says: "People didn't know whether Robert Rauschenberg's goat with a tire around it was art. Now they know. If an artist goes on making goats, though, he's hung up." Serra tries to stay loose, and designs his works to last. Says he proudly, "I take great care to glue every feather down...
...same time William Alfred, professor of English, was given a tax-free grant of $2500 for his two recent plays, Hogan's Goat and Agememnon...
...play has become Hogan's Goat (try getting tickets on a weekend), Alfred has been lionized by the New York critics, the national magazines are delirious (imagine a professor writing a Hit), and East Side hostesses are fighting to get the new playwright at their dinner parties. Suddenly Harvard's master of Beowulf has taken on a whole new dimension, and what with Hollywood pounding on his Athens Street door, there doesn't seem to be an end in sight. Will success spoil William Alfred. Will he toss away his fedora, his anecdotes, his Wiglaf...
...Renaissance, American Comfort, and William Alfred. The white walls ("It makes everything much brighter, doesn't it?") are covered with illustrations of Greek figures, portraits of colonial women, a sea-scape, some French impressionists, and the Brooklyn Bridge. On one table are three stacks of the book Hogan's Goat (just out) and on another a copy of Life with its Alfred feature. "Did you see what they did to me?" he asks, chuckling at the magazine. "How about that come-hither look by the church door?" And then William Alfred sits down, lights a meerschaum pipe, and begins...
...translation of Agamemnon "which was no good" partly because it was half-translation and half-play. It was after this that he then began to write for the theatre in earnest and has stuck to the form ever since. It was suggested to him once that Hogan's Goat was really a novel but "I know as much about writing novels as about playing basketball." If anything, he feels Hogan was close to movie form and hence his confidence that it will easily be adapted: "I'll just have to take an awful lot of words...