# Synthesis Memo - Chapter 16

Raw Claude draft: `output/drafts/claude/chapter_16.round_01.md`.

Accepted base: Claude round 01, because it obeyed the company opening, preserved Theo's ignorance of the Philadelphia offer, kept the catalog reveal protected, rendered all four fear objects, and ended with the truth still unsaid.

Major retained material:
- flyer opening and cohort post-kiss public pressure;
- Odile's fear assignment mechanics and paint-through rule;
- Theo's wrong-first leaving canvas and erased-wall reworking;
- June's useful-hands / blank-ground fear canvas;
- catalog retrieval offer and failed confession-by-layout substitution.

Major repairs:
- raw mechanical blockers repaired before integration: one-sentence paragraph gravity, echo line, comma-then pairs, and over-composed commentary;
- Comedy Doctor orders executed: phone quip attribution, baby-teeth simile, Ruth overlay tag, clementine aftermath repetitions, chair-count repeat, and Odile aphorism density;
- Plain Translation orders executed: two narration echoes varied;
- Claude-tic repairs kept the close on lock/key action rather than profundity.

Accepted findings:
- Dialogue Doctor: final canonical round clean; no further order.
- Comedy Doctor: latest orders accepted and executed; see `chapter_16.comedy_repair_memo.md`.
- Figuration: `FIGURATION-EARNED`.
- Genericization: `OVERALL: HELD`.
- Narrator-Publicist: `CRITICAL-DISTANCE-HELD`.
- Plain Translation: two orders accepted and executed; see `chapter_16.plain_translation_repair_memo.md`.
- Codex core/risk audits: clean/no open orders.

Rejected findings: none. Deferred findings: span watches only - chair-count comedy spent, clementines retired for Ch17, Odile quotability at ceiling, no new clerical-register figures in Ch17.

Chapter status: ready for tracker reconciliation and commit after full gate/dialogue manifest verification.
