Undoubtedly, women will continue to lustafter and wear certain timepieces created for the boys, just as they covet men's bespoke shirts and slouchy jeans, but no longer will the shrunken man's wristwatch with added sparkle and nacre, a pink strap and a quartz movement suffice.
It is hard for those who regularly lustafter alpine scenery to contemplate, but the last two days - flat trekking through forest - are probably the tramp's highlight.
In the second half of his life as close friends submitted to one fatal illness after another Stevenson conceived an unlikely lustfor life while touring the South Pacific, submitting to the roughest and most dangerous of conditions, but this time with barely a murmur.