Eidetic and specular

I have made a mistake. I'm watching 'Eegah!' for Film Bin and it's pretty terrible. It does leave a lot of spare processing power for other things though, which I suppose is an advantage.

Eidetic: of visual imagery of almost photographic accuracy
Specular: capable of reflecting light like a mirror

Given the fact that sight was the last of our senses to be developed, there are masses of words with visual connotation and relevance. We seem to have become obsessed with how things look rather than how they sound or taste or smell or feel. That may be because of the vast amounts of ranged sensory impression we can take from sight but it's mostly due to the fact that sight is an intellectual sense while the others are primal. We have trouble describing smells in any detail, for example, or textures and that's because we don't have the vocabulary and we haven't developed the skill in ourselves for converting such earthy impressions into descriptive terms.

<Gosh, it's all serious today. I've gotten very lucky with the random words too, as you'll see.>

For example, if someone has an eidetic memory, then they can supposedly remember things as near-perfect images of how they were, remember pages of text as if they're reading them afresh, and look for new details in paintings they'd seen weeks earlier. In effect their memories have become mirrors into the past, reflecting images from past days as if they had never gone away. Their memories are temporally specular and unusual beyond belief. We don't comment if someone has a memory that expertly reproduces sounds or smells or touches, only sight. I would be surprised if there's a comparable word to 'specular' that deals with sounds.

'What does all of this have to do with pies?' is the question I can feel welling up from the subtext of this plot, and of course the answer is 'nothing'. I just wanted to mention pies. It was that or write a piece on 'Eegah!', which would be sad as this movie can only end badly. And now it has. Goodbye, Eegah. Hello, pie plans.

Apple, maybe?
O.