he has "forgotten" what he has
             done wrong, yet he feels the weight of some indefinable original
             sin. he also acknowledges that the punishment was "no mistake."
             The punishment is justified, he recognizes, but he still finds it
             incommensurate with his life. So now his rational solution is to
             sign for everything he does and get a copy of it. That way, he
             says, "you'll know what you done and hold up the crime to the
             punishment and see do they match and in the end you'll have
             something to prove you ain't been treated right" (151). But of
             course this does not explain the original sense of sin and
             injustice he feels. The strict logic of his proposal is impotent
             before the mystery of evil his life embodies.
             The Misfit, then, wants not only to understand the mystery of
             evil he feels, but also, somehow, to be justified in the face of it.
             he wants justice as well as knowledge, and also to be liberated
             from his predicament. The desire itself is good; the Psalms exalt
             the human longing for a world of justice and constancy (Psalm
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