THE BULLY

screams bloody murder when you take his club from him.  But that is less because he fears you will turn it against him, as because simply to LOSE his club is to be beaten by it, as far as he is concerned.  In his imagination his club is himself, so he thinks you have taken his very soul.  Perhaps this sort of delusion helps to explain why "the worst are filled with passionate insensity," as Yeats put it.