# Chapter 16 Comedy Repair Memo

Claude Comedy Doctor rounds found portable or over-repeated comic/prose items. Orders accepted and executed.

- `"Phones are very advanced"` was replaced, then attribution fixed to `"It's a phone," Mara said. Theo looked down at the address block...`.
- `"picture hooks left in like the building's baby teeth"` was replaced with room-turnover process: `"pull, fill, sand, and paint flat."`
- `"because of course Ruth's faced true"` and `"terrible accuracy"` were cut.
- `"finished the chairs wrong twice"` became a correct count Theo distrusts.
- Clementine aftermath similes/reprises (`"like a tip"`, `"riding on the flap"`) were cut, leaving Priya's earlier care move.
- Odile's aphorism count was reduced by flattening `"your partner is a subject you can't look at"` into `"Easels turned away from partners."`

Post-repair mechanical gate: PASS, open=0, WATCH=71.

Disposition: all orders accepted and executed; no comedy finding remains open.
