Yes Lori, I agree. The "pornographic watch" is the priest being able to look but not touch (looking and longing on the sly) and I always took "sure it's stricken from your uniform, but you can't get it out of your eyes" to mean that he isn't wearing his clerical collar, as most priests don't these days in public, so there is no way to tell he is a priest, but in his heart he knows the vocation he's chosen, still he can't stop from sneaking occasional looks at the carnal attractions before him. It's like the phrase "night watch", or keeping watch in the night. I always felt that Joni used it as a description of the priest's fantasies, not a literal "watch" or "wristwatch."
Gary Lori in MD wrote: > > Anne wrote: > > > I always thought this was what Joni meant too - because > > she also says "sure, it's stricken from his uniform" so > > it a watch he would wear. > > I'm still hung up on a figurative interpretation. His "uniform" -- the priest's >frock -- suggests moral virtue. He APPEARS to be above his longings, but he "can't >get it out of his eyes." That look ... you know the one. > > Lori > in MD > > ~ > Yahoo! Games - play chess, backgammon, pool and more
