in hopes fully understanding 'him', then wearing out his allegorical relevance, and then losing "him" in the revolving door that David walked through each year toward the next persona and album. Not sure if it worked since there was less transformation of the exterior between "Americans" to "Monsters" than in the albums prior which could be seen as intentional (begin at start of decade putting what's on the inside on the outside and then the second half of the decade in an effort to coil it all back inside to "become himself" again like I believe he seemed to get around to either during or right after "Monsters".) General Comment: just12: Yep, cocaine, not heroin. You don't get "close to 94" (mph) when you're on heroin. The feeling of "going in circles" much like "going round and round the hotel garage" states, is the feeling of unending forward momentum while on coke and after the crash. A neurochemical "crash" always happens with dopaminergic drugs because all of the latent dopamine has been used up and there is none for smooth-muscle contractions in the body (dopamine is "used" all over the body, not just the brain). This would also explain Bowie's self-attested poor memory as just12 has supplied in his interview reference. "Take it" "on the road".... you've all seen the Talking Heads video for "Burning Down the House" that at the end of has an overlay of David Byrne's face upon video of a road, right? The white lines that