# Chapter 06 Comedy Repair Memo

Source audit: `output/critiques/claude/chapter_06.comedy_doctor.md`

## Accepted Findings

- Accepted the portable narrator-overlay apposition in `inspection and a blessing`.
- Accepted the portable `gathering reactions like coats` transition.
- Accepted the workshopped Mara tail clause `I become difficult when unsupervised`.
- Accepted the sweetness-placement issue: `CORTADO YES` interrupted Ruth's sharpest warning beat.

## Repairs Applied

- Cut `an inspection and a blessing`; Mara's scarf line now performs the care in her own voice.
- Cut `gathering reactions like coats`; transition now stays functional.
- Cut the Mara tail clause; her wall assignment ends at the clip-lights pretext.
- Moved the espresso-machine/CORTADO sign setup from Ruth's warning paragraph into the bodega interior paragraph, next to Ben's sign-reading payoff.

## Verification Pending

Rerun Comedy Doctor round 2 on current `output/chapters/chapter_06.md`.
