# Chapter 21 Specificity Test

- `ANCHORED — "sealed with a strip of silver tape that said MARCHETTI: 8 in Ruth's block marker" — anchor: returned catalog route, Ruth/Sam care, Marchetti Rooms freight logistics.`
- `ANCHORED — "the 1996 went in fourth from the left, and he did not open it" — anchor: 1996 acknowledgment reveal.`
- `ANCHORED — "*8 rtn'd 12/4, via R. Kim / S. Rivera*" — anchor: loan-sheet and catalog-return canon.`
- `ANCHORED — "I wrote that page. I paid the printer." — anchor: Odile's catalog/acknowledgment authorship.`
- `ANCHORED — "I thought about it less than I should have" — anchor: Odile's partial responsibility after Theo names June's cost.`
- `ANCHORED — "There is soup upstairs. Barley." — anchor: Odile feeding as care and Marchetti upstairs/studio space.`
- `ANCHORED — "next to his entry on the loan sheet... she wrote her own initials, *O.M.*" — anchor: Odile's logistics-as-confession.`
- `ANCHORED — "a filled nail hole a shade off from the wall around it" — anchor: June's painter/install eye and Ch18 wall-spackle continuity.`
- `ANCHORED — "a small clean rectangle of nothing that the hands in the foreground were too busy to walk toward" — anchor: Theo's blank ground/useful-hands fear canvas.`
- `ANCHORED — "the retired backing boards leaned in their slot" — anchor: hidden-study object state.`
- `ANCHORED — "He had flattered the moment into an invitation. It had been a maybe." — anchor: Theo's Week 3 study and the consent problem.`
- `ANCHORED — "he was not going to invent a cheekbone he'd never witnessed" — anchor: portrait ethics and painter-specific choice.`
- `ANCHORED — "Study - J. Park - begun wk 3, finished 12/4 - T. Brennan" — anchor: object label, dates, people, authorship.`
- `ANCHORED — "Can we talk? Sonia's." — anchor: recurring diner commons and Ch22 setup.`
- `ANCHORED — "with his keys in his pocket and both hands empty" — anchor: Theo's keys/hands/usefulness motif and refusal to carry the portrait.`

Three weakest anchored lines:
- `"The wait was terrible in an ordinary way."` passes because it is immediately concretized by Theo wanting "to move something" and having nothing to move.
- `"He read it over once."` passes because the next action is the specific second bubble he cannot take back.
- `"He looked at it a long time before he touched anything."` passes because the ensuing changes are not generic contemplation but the door angle, cheekbone refusal, and scarf knot.

Chapter verdict: `SPECIFIC`.

`REVISION ORDERS`: none.
