When They came to him in August, 1979 and told him he could continue serving his country after death, former prime minister Diefenbaker's first thought was "What?", almost immediately followed by "sure, I mean, why the hell not. I'll catch up with st. Peter later." Never let it be said that he wasn't capable of pulling it together in a hurry.
He bounced around time and space doing odd jobs for a couple of years--returning to his own lifetime to teach a young boy named Pierre to pirouette, showing a fresh faced Joe Shuster where to get the best comic books-- little jobs like that. Until one day, when They who recruited him returned and said "well" and "we've got a job for you" and "there's a Mountie, he will prove to be interesting", and he said "well" right back and then because he hadn't fallen off the cart yesterday, "what's the catch?"
Finally, out of the heavily pregnant silence that had fallen in the spiritual no man's land, They said, almost hesitantly for a supernatural phenomenon, "you'll have to go undercover as a wolf", a pause, "a deaf wolf." John Diefenbaker did the mental equivalent of taking a step back, pondered for a minute, then: "I haven't made it this far pussy-footing around; sign me up." And he tripped and fell down the rabbit hole, into a bear trap.
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Date: 2007-03-29 05:16 am (UTC)He bounced around time and space doing odd jobs for a couple of years--returning to his own lifetime to teach a young boy named Pierre to pirouette, showing a fresh faced Joe Shuster where to get the best comic books-- little jobs like that. Until one day, when They who recruited him returned and said "well" and "we've got a job for you" and "there's a Mountie, he will prove to be interesting", and he said "well" right back and then because he hadn't fallen off the cart yesterday, "what's the catch?"
Finally, out of the heavily pregnant silence that had fallen in the spiritual no man's land, They said, almost hesitantly for a supernatural phenomenon, "you'll have to go undercover as a wolf", a pause, "a deaf wolf." John Diefenbaker did the mental equivalent of taking a step back, pondered for a minute, then: "I haven't made it this far pussy-footing around; sign me up." And he tripped and fell down the rabbit hole, into a bear trap.