Picture This (song) Picture This (song) "Picture This" is a song by the American rock band Blondie. It was released in the UK in 1978 as the lead single from their third album "Parallel Lines". It reached number 12 in the UK, giving Blondie their third UK Top 20 hit. It also charted in various other countries but was not issued as a single in the US. "Picture This" was written by Chris Stein, Debbie Harry and Jimmy Destri. Debbie Harry wrote the lyrics while Destri and Stein each wrote portions of the music. The B-side of the single, "Fade Away And Radiate",
Picture This (novel) Picture This (novel) Picture This is a 1988 novel from Joseph Heller, the satiric author of the acclaimed "Catch-22". The novel is an eclectic historical journey across multiple periods of history, all connected by a single painting: Rembrandt van Rijn's "Aristotle Contemplating a Bust of Homer". The work jumps from the golden age of Athens, to 17th Century Holland, to the rise of the American Empire; hopscotching from Aristotle, to Rembrandt, to Socrates, and back to Heller and even Jimmy Carter. It examines fundamental dichotomies in human existence under the guise of satire. Like in Heller's version of King David's