Joelle visits Gately: the trite completes its arc

The anthology's central movement stated outright: the trite completing its arc into the true. Joelle had dismissed the slogans as patronizing banality, and here, hearing herself talk, she registers that experience has quietly converted them — they've become literally, mechanically accurate. The Evel Knievel figure makes it concrete: she relapsed because she counted clean days like cars a motorcycle has to clear, until the number grew "improbable" and she'd break down — which is precisely, operationally, what "Keep It in the Day" warns against. The cliché isn't shallow-that-sounds-deep; it's the exact diagnosis of why she kept failing. Trite→true, completed inside one person and dated to the minute she said it aloud.