# Chapter 02 Comedy Repair Memo

Source audit: `output/critiques/claude/chapter_02.comedy_doctor.md`

## Blocking Findings Accepted

1. Line 23 punctuation-gloss joke ("no question mark anywhere in it") explained Odile's line after the dialogue already performed it.
   - Repair: cut the gloss; kept Odile's flat "Why would she withdraw" and Theo's read of her certainty.
2. Line 63 aphorism ("She read the way other people argued") was portable narrator overlay.
   - Repair: cut the aphorism; kept the observable packet audit and Theo's unpreparedness for how thoroughly June reads.
3. Line 111 repeated the chapter 01 filing metaphor.
   - Repair: replaced with an observable withheld question: "She watched him choose the receipt book... did not ask the next question."

## Disposition

All three findings were accepted and repaired in `output/chapters/chapter_02.md`. Mechanical gate after repair: PASS, open=0, allowlisted=0, WATCH=60.
