By the way, I know a man (?) named Shane and he is under the extremely false impression that ALL women desire him! That degree of presumption more or less equals the grandiosity of Rapparee's exaggerated view of himself and his place in the Universe.

Perhaps these two individuals are psychically linked at the Oversoul level! That could explain their instinctive deep antipathy toward one another, as each one finds the reflection of himself in the other to be intolerable.