# Chapter 23 Convenient-Invention Fact-Check - Current Text

DIFF SCOPE: `revision_snapshots/chapter_23/chapter_23.0003.20260704T203853Z.after_initial_integration.md` vs `output/chapters/chapter_23.md` — major changed regions: dialogue/comedy/positive-prose repairs; 6 new or altered factual assertions checked.

INVENTION CANDIDATE #1
post-edit text: `"That's two months before Kessler"` (L85)
pre-edit text at that point: `"March is a long way to carry January"`
class: detail
canon check: current chapter itself establishes `"Kessler's money doesn't land till March"` and January key/payment pressure at L81; continuity already tracks Kessler as March money.
verdict: CANON-COMPATIBLE.

INVENTION CANDIDATE #2
post-edit text: `"She scraped the brush on the palette, too hard"` (L89)
pre-edit text at that point: balanced glad/not-go formulation
class: detail / motivation
canon check: June's voice card and prior chapters establish brush/busywork under exposure; no canon contradiction.
verdict: CANON-COMPATIBLE.

INVENTION CANDIDATE #3
post-edit text: `"On his side the track-light bar stopped at the taped seam"` (L119)
pre-edit text at that point: `"strip of primer"`
class: physical detail
canon check: tape remains down until L155-L161; the repaired wording is consistent with scene chronology.
verdict: CANON-COMPATIBLE.

INVENTION CANDIDATE #4
post-edit text: `"He kept his hands at his sides"` (L119)
pre-edit text at that point: `"close, not touching"`
class: action
canon check: Theo's arc repeatedly converts care into withheld fixing; no contradictory hand/action state.
verdict: CANON-COMPATIBLE.

INVENTION CANDIDATE #5
post-edit text: `"The helpful version costs me the room"` (L87)
pre-edit text at that point: included a tidy self-diagnosis
class: motivation / causal connection
canon check: Dana room independence and Theo's over-helping are established in Ch20-22 and in L81/L83 of this chapter.
verdict: CANON-COMPATIBLE.

INVENTION CANDIDATE #6
post-edit text: `"the table running away from the threshold"` (L39)
pre-edit text at that point: `"the table receding off the edge of the world"`
class: visual detail
canon check: June's panel is introduced as threshold-view/foreshortened at L35.
verdict: CANON-COMPATIBLE.

Verdict: `NO-INVENTIONS`.

Revision orders: none.
