# Chapter 05 Synthesis Memo

## Draft Provenance

- Claude prose base: `output/drafts/claude/chapter_05.round_01.md`
- Integrated chapter: `output/chapters/chapter_05.md`
- Drafting lane: single Claude seed + Codex critique/repair + opposing Claude audits.

## What Was Kept From Claude

- The blind-contour engine: assignment-card epigraph, facing easels, June's failed first attempt, Odile's correction, and the second attempt's close visual attention.
- The emotional shape: June tries to return Mara's scarf, fails; tries to recycle the drawings, fails; leaves with both drawings and the scarf.
- The central art beat: June stops correcting Theo into a generic man and sees the glasses lean, collar, mouth, and shoulder drift.
- The Theo drawing payoff: his drawing is bad but catches the scarf knot.

## What Codex Modified

- Repaired Claude-tic and reading-guide risks: cut shimmer/theme stamps (`ugly as testimony`, `forgiveness was Tuesdays at seven`), portable jokes, and over-explained dialogue beats.
- Replaced unsupported/generic room history with visible studio evidence and later removed `former sweatshop` so the chapter did not add an unverified canon fact.
- Rebuilt the Theo/stub callback around the actual Ch03 tin count and pocketed stubs.
- Repaired Dialogue Doctor findings around Theo's advance warning and Odile's instruction cadence.
- After the five-chapter Voice Check, revised Chapters 01-05 to remove dialogue diagnosis, shared `, which` templates, over-shared filing/arithmetic figures, the 1998 chronology bug, Ch05 rhetorical duration, and Ch05 participle/staging drift.

## Accepted Findings

- Claude Dialogue Doctor Ch05 round 1: accepted and repaired all blockers; round 2 clean.
- Claude Comedy Doctor Ch05 round 1: accepted six blockers; post-voice verification clean and committable.
- Claude Narrator-Publicist: accepted watch notes only; no publicity repairs required after post-voice rerun.
- Claude Voice Check Ch01-05 round 1: accepted all 17 orders; round 2 returned `VOICE-HOLDS`.
- Codex continuity/seed audits: added S-MEMORY-02, updated scarf/drawing object state, and recorded Week 2 as October 27.

## Rejected / Deferred

- No audit blocker was rejected.
- Deferred as watch rather than immediate repair: occupational/person simile density, exact-cap refusal-to-conclude family, Theo coin-stamps at cap, `for the length of time` scaffold at two, June credential taps, Luis dry verdict cap, and Ben timing/self-deprecation spent shape.

## Current Disposition

Chapter 05 passes mechanical gate, Dialogue Doctor, Comedy Doctor, Narrator-Publicist, and five-chapter Voice Check coverage. It is accepted as the Chapter 05 commit text.
