# Chapter 19 Plain Translation Repair Memo

Source audit: `output/critiques/claude/chapter_19.plain_translation.md`

Plain Translation returned `DRIFT-FOUND (3 REPLACE orders)`. All three replacement orders were accepted and executed.

## Executed Repairs

1. Aphoristic Luis line:
   - Replaced `"Move it or paint it," Luis said.` with `"You can't leave it half," Luis said.`
   - Rationale: keeps the material pencil-line/stool pressure while removing the portable art-advice shape.

2. Kept-room over-explanation:
   - Cut the colon-appositive after `It was a good beginning, and from this side there was no missing what it was a beginning of.`
   - The paragraph now proceeds directly to the empty primed ground and stain.

3. Final jar caption:
   - Cut `and left the clean jar there, ready to be filled`.
   - The jar placement remains in the previous sentence; the chapter ends at the lock.

## Verification

- Snapshot before repair: `output/revision_snapshots/chapter_19/chapter_19.0017.20260703T203045Z.before_plain_translation_round1_repairs.md`
- Snapshot after repair: `output/revision_snapshots/chapter_19/chapter_19.0019.20260703T203104Z.after_plain_translation_round1_repairs.md`
- Post-repair mechanical gate: PASS open=0 allowlisted=0 WATCH=49.

## Forward Watch

- Ch20 should not inherit Ch19's room/side/reach density.
- `The room after class` is title/label only from here unless the chapter card explicitly reopens it.
- Theo's next chapter should not open in solitary maintenance/setup mode.
