The cult author B.S. Johnson wrote a satirical novel, Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry, in which the title character, a young man disaffected by society, decides to start applying the standards of double-entry bookkeeping to his own life. For each wrong he perceives the world has done him he calculates the 'cost' to himself and exacts a commensurate recompense in kind, noting down the corresponding figures. By the end of the story these perceived injustices have become the justification for mass poisoning and an attempt to blow up Parliament.
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