# Chapter 01 Plain-Translation Repair Memo

Source audit: `output/critiques/claude/chapter_01.plain_translation.md`

Disposition: all four blocking orders repaired by Codex line edit using Claude's specified binding-register replacements.

1. DRIFT-1 - aphoristic final clause in the `Winter Kitchen` description.
   - Original: `The light in it was ten in the morning in an unheated room, the hour when nobody performs.`
   - Replacement: `The light in it was ten in the morning in an unheated room.`
   - Rationale: keeps the optical/painterly fact and removes narrator wisdom.

2. DRIFT-2 - June carrying an Odile-level polished praise line.
   - Original: `She painted it without mercy and without flattery. Most people pick one.`
   - Replacement: `She didn't soften it and she didn't make it the point.`
   - Rationale: keeps June's scorch-mark reading in plainer, less quotable speech.

3. DRIFT-3 - gnomic boring-lie maxim.
   - Original: `because no one inspects a boring lie; checking would be rude.`
   - Replacement: `Nobody had ever inspected one of hers; checking would have been rude.`
   - Rationale: turns the claim into June's case history rather than a portable maxim.

4. Verbatim-Echo Gate - excessive `six years` recurrence.
   - Original P2: `because six years behind gallery desks...`
   - Replacement: `because years behind gallery desks...`
   - Original P28: `I've watched six years of it.`
   - Replacement: `I've watched it run, year after year.`
   - Rationale: preserves the June/Theo six-year mirror where it is structurally necessary and removes two non-transformative echoes.

Mechanical regression check after repairs: `bash scripts/quality_gate.sh --report output/critiques/codex/mechanical/chapter_01_quality_gate.md --json-out output/critiques/codex/mechanical/chapter_01_quality_gate.json output/chapters/chapter_01.md` passes with open=0, allowlisted=0, WATCH=80.
