# Conversation-Variety Audit - Chapter 05

chapter: 05 | conversations audited: 3 | pairs with prior history: 2 | flagged: 0

## SPEAKERS: June + Theo - ch05 instance after ch01/ch02/ch03/ch04

STAKE-SHIFT: VARIED - this: task-sanctioned looking, `"They're the only dependable edges you've got"` / `"The card wouldn't let me fix it"` (lines 53, 99) vs prior ch04 diner cover-story survival, `"You're still at work"` (Ch04). The relationship pressure shifts from public story-management to private attention.

FORMAT: VARIED - this is embedded in art exercise and object comparison; prior ch04 was ensemble diner interrogation.

LENGTH: VARIED - this is short exchange clusters around drawing; prior ch04 is long table conversation.

TEMPORAL: VARIED - this is Week 2 studio class during the assignment, not after-class diner.

REGISTER: VARIED - this is dry craft-task intimacy; prior was warm panic and cover-story improv.

EARNS-ITS-PLACE: EARNS - payoff line: `"he had gotten the knot"` (line 97). Strongest skim-risk considered: line 73 nose joke; a reader would lose the balance of awkwardness before the later knot reveal if cut.

Conversation verdict: VARIED+EARNS.

## SPEAKERS: June + Mara - ch05 scarf exchange after ch03/ch04

STAKE-SHIFT: VARIED - this: June attempts return and Mara extends loan (`"Keep it through the cold snap"`, line 15) vs ch03 initial lending / ch04 keep-through-next-Tuesday obligation.

FORMAT: VARIED - threshold doorway exchange, not first-class rescue or diner-social pressure.

LENGTH: VARIED - brief practical exchange.

TEMPORAL: VARIED - start of Week 2 class, before assignment.

REGISTER: VARIED - practical warmth with comic refusal; not "how did you meet" probing.

EARNS-ITS-PLACE: EARNS - payoff: scarf remains live and appears in Theo's drawing (`Mara's scarf... knot off-center`, line 97). Strongest skim-risk: `I washed it` (line 17), but it exposes June's over-care and earns Mara's refusal.

Conversation verdict: VARIED+EARNS.

## SPEAKERS: Odile + class / June / Theo - recurring teacher-student form after ch03

STAKE-SHIFT: VARIED - this: exact looking at partner, `"You repaired it"` / `"You are performing stillness"` (lines 65, 69) vs ch03 timed public failure and cleanup pairing.

FORMAT: VARIED - blind-contour paired exercise, not model-stand gesture.

LENGTH: REPEATED but justified - Odile remains short by design; reading guide licenses her fewest-best-lines mode.

TEMPORAL: VARIED - Week 2 after first diner commons.

REGISTER: VARIED - less aphoristic than Ch03; more technical.

EARNS-ITS-PLACE: EARNS - payoff: her correction changes the next drawing's truth (`Every correction made him less present`, line 83). Strongest skim-risk: `"The page can manage without you"` (line 45), but it is a direct blind-contour rule.

Conversation verdict: VARIED+EARNS.

Revision orders: none.
