The CULTURE PAGES
Wherefore
Art Thou,
Penis?
Jacqueline Novak
on her lyrical,
epic deconstruction
of the blow job in
Get On Your Knees.
by e. alex jungget on your knees is at the
Lucille Lortel Theatre.Photograph by Dina LitovskyT
he lady has lost her head.
We don’t know when it
happened, but she was
found that way by two
Egyptologists in a Paris
shop in 1957 and has remained the same
since, with liquid hips and an ankle-
length skirt of sandy limestone. Her
name is Tagerem, and she worked in the
temple of Sakhebu on the southwestern
delta of the Nile in a revered position
known as “God’s wife” to the sun god Re.
She’s about 2,300 years old—give or take
a few years—and 16 and a half inches,
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