You look just like your picture

I was thinking yesterday about synthetic experiences. About learning through movies, forming impressions through pictures, studying the sound of something. I was thinking about this way of talking we have. We say things like, "Oh, look at that sunset, it is just like a photograph" or "Listen to those birds, they sound like a symphony." It shows what? Is it a drive to reify the world of vital movement? A way to slow down the event of beauty. And why? Why this compulsion to capture little stones of beauty. I recently took a picture of a sunset, and my friend looked at it and said, "oh, it looks just like a postcard." i thought that was a very funny thing to say, because I had thought it looked just like a sunset. But there you are. 

 Then there is another wonderful thing we do. When we see something real that we only had virtual knowledge of and we say, "oh it is just like the photograph." Which is equally silly, seeing as the photograph was of the thing...would it not be better to say, "the photograph fared well in capturing this. It did not lie." But I suppose logic isn't so important to us. We don't seem to mind or even notice how illogical we can be.