# Chapter 10 Comedy Repair Memo

Source audit: `output/critiques/claude/chapter_10.comedy_doctor.md`

## Accepted Findings And Repairs

1. Workshopped wing-nut tail:
   - Before: "faster than the city could replace them."
   - Repair: "would empty the little bin by December."
   - Reason: keeps Theo's procurement logic local to the Canal hardware supply rather than narrator-scale punchline syntax.

2. Portable pen setup:
   - Before: "a pen Priya appeared to have opinions about."
   - Repair: "Priya's good pen already uncapped in his hand."
   - Reason: makes the later capping beat material and character-sourced rather than stock "had opinions" idiom.

3. Baguette simile:
   - Before: "like a baguette she'd forgotten to eat."
   - Repair: "riding high and uncovered at the top."
   - Reason: cuts cute narrator-overlay and seeds Theo's later glassine concern.

4. Odile quotability density:
   - Demoted "Photographs are cheating. Mime is worse..." into plainer rule language.
   - Cut "The painted become painters," leaving "Switch."
   - Cut "That is the entire comment," letting her move on after the one critique line.
   - Preserved the load-bearing Odile lines identified by the audit: the loose-easel reread plant, "Sit in it," "Then you posed all evening," and "Do not improve anything."

## Rejected Findings

None. Every Comedy Doctor order was accepted and executed.
