# Chapter 21 Adversarial Register Audit

## CODEX-ON-CLAUDE

High-risk Claude tics checked: em-dash rhythm crutch, elegant abstractions, "mattered/earned/weighed/carried" verbs, "a kind of/something like/small/quiet/careful" default phrases, narrator wisdom inserts, theme explanation after the beat, recursive negation, self-aware meta-clauses, over-balanced parallel clauses, profundity-stamp scene endings, lovely/quiet/small flattening, and generic physical reaction beats.

- nearest miss: `"a kinder reading than he trusted"` — survives because the sentence explicitly attributes the reading to Theo's wish and leaves it wrong/unratified for Ch22 to correct.
- nearest miss: `"The wait was terrible in an ordinary way"` — survives because the next sentence turns the feeling into Theo's concrete urge to move objects and prepare contingencies.
- repaired prior to this audit: `mattered` residue, "only honest object," "thirty-nine years... design," and "pre-carpeting" were removed in `before_claude_tic_round1_repairs` / `after_claude_tic_round1_repairs`.
- current-text rechecks: Dialogue Doctor, Comedy Doctor, Positive Prose, Plain Translation, Thought Development, Narrator-Publicist, and Characters-Wrong all re-cleared after the late Ch21 repairs; no remaining line-level order is open.

## CLAUDE-ON-CODEX

`NO-CODEX-MATERIAL` — no Codex parallel draft was produced. Codex contribution is line-level integration/mechanical/tic repair, not standalone Codex-originated scene prose; those edits are routed through the same Claude risk audits as the whole current chapter.

## COMP-DRIFT

- `CLEAR` — no named comp pastiche detected. The chapter's strongest stylized passage, `"the filled nail hole and given it four square inches"`, is book-specific painter/logistics perception rather than borrowed signature cadence.

## GENRE-CLICHE-CHECK

`PREMISE-CODED` — examples of the premise's distinct register on the page:
- returned art-book logistics: `"*8 rtn'd 12/4, via R. Kim / S. Rivera.* Not via J. Park."`
- romantic/ethical pressure translated into object custody: `"painted side faced to the wall, the labeled bar outward"`
- Odile's logistics-as-confession register: `"next to his entry on the loan sheet... she wrote her own initials, *O.M.*"`

Chapter verdict: `CLEAN`.

`REVISION ORDERS`: none.
