Parenthood has clearly reordered Fraser’s thinking, as has the self-examination she’s undertaken since she had a nervous breakdown in 1993 while working on Four-Calendar Café.
“Everything ground to a halt,” she explains. “I didn’t know what was wrong with me.” Entering a treatment facility in the U.S., she was admitted to a trauma unit and confronted both herself and those around her with some hard truths.
"Oubliette" aired on Jeff Buckley's second to last birthday
Dunk you under
Deep salt water
Bring me, lover
All your power
I'll be no hell
Out of your spell
Over, under
Die of pleasure
In my dreaming
You'll be drowning
Hell's low, God above
All drunk on my love
You ought to hear my long snake moan!
You ought to see me from my throne!
It's my voodoo working
It's my voodoo working
It's my voodoo working
It's my voodoo working
PJ Harvey, "Long Snake Moan"
Philip K Dick believed that Vox Dei - the Voice of God - will speak to us through things most people ignore, like TV commercials or discarded newspapers.
I knew straight away that we were in for a rough ride as soon as I heard the Sibyl was singing again, having over forty years of evidence - including some of the hairiest events of the Cold War - and a few thousand years of literature to back me up.
And I suspected we were on the cusp of something bigger and more serious than the usual kind of crisis, something that would have profound and lasting implications for the entire world.
If you're ready, you know where to find me. If you're not, I sincerely hope you will be soon.
