# Catalog-Prose / System-Tour Audit — Chapter 20

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Mechanical lead: quality gate WATCH `fieldguide-shopping-list` at the notebook date cluster.

Checked list clusters:
- Tasker terms list: `$49,500`, W-2 estimate, rent, benefits, keys, studio clause. It is not a brochure because the paragraph exits on "GOOD" and the dilemma "still good."
- New York terms list: Kessler/Dana numbers. It is not a system tour because each number becomes a deadline or risk: Dec 10 deposit, Dec 15 W-9, Jan 4 load-in, March pay, blank February.
- Asha logistics block: long but dialogic; the question "can you get from here to March?" makes it pressure, not exposition.
- Execution sequence: text/email/text/notice/card/study. It is outcome ledger, not scenery.

Strongest failure candidate: "DEC 10--DANA... JAN 4--8 A.M. FEB = ." It survives because it is June's notation form and the later continuity depends on the blank.

Chapter verdict: `SYSTEM-LOAD-DRAMATIZED`.

REVISION ORDERS: none.
