Fix pre-existing typos (intellegent, interupted, furiture), double quote
mark, stray period, and dialogue attribution punctuation. Tighten the
Mere cold-read parenthetical for better fragment consistency.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Add parenthetical asides for meal-counting, Mere cold-read, hand-brush
overthinking, and house-cost arithmetic. Add two new brief noise flashes
(dockworker read, customs wall analysis) to establish constant frequency.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Convert ward-jar flaw analysis to parenthetical aside format and add
the naming passage establishing Phelan's constant mental processing
as "the noise" — the first instance of the new tangent convention.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
