Somehow this got back to Drave, who, deeply though perhaps unhealthily amused, struck Lew repeatedly with a "remembrance stick."
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I meant to read Dianetics in my thirties but never got around to it. I'm sorry that I didn't because I think knowledge of Scientology would come in handy while reading this chapter. The link between this weird self-help commune and Alcoholics Anonymous sort of unravels when one of the leaders begins hitting a new recruit with a stick to help him remember. Unless the remembrance stick is just a metaphor for some grizzled old timer taking you out in the dark church parking lot after the meeting to drink one more cup of coffee and to share a cigarette as he acts like your new best friend and encourages you to keep coming back. To him, he probably thinks he's being friendly. To the newbie, he's definitely up to something and that something might be sexual and maybe another beer wouldn't be a bad idea.
The remembrance stick just sounds like some weird ritual that Scientology would be into. I also wouldn't be surprised if Mormons had remembrance sticks. Come to think of it, I also wouldn't be shocked if half a dozen different Christian denominations had them.
I get being beaten with a remembrance stick. You've got to remember stuff! But being beaten with the remembrance stick when you haven't forgotten anything at all just seems out of line! Hershel didn't simply not tell Lew where he would be; Hershel aggressively didn't tell Lew where he would be! They set Lew up for failure. That also sounds like a method of brainwashing people used by Scientology!
"Drave" and Hershel
It's weird that these guys have no last names and their first names are slightly misspelled, right?
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