Related Clues:

• Phlegmatic type taken from Inverness to Iceland
• Able to endure pain
• There's a lot of staff around old patient
• Repeated passage of tortoise divides as in the original Zeno?
• I'll get stuck in the bank endlessly, a long-suffering type
• Impassive type going in bus to ice-rink
• Indifferent to pain
• Rustic youth not entirely unsympathetic
• Indifferent part of Dreiser's desire
• ... thus digests book about Zeno of Citium, perhaps
• Such conditions in very low temperature at end of January?
• Resilient philosopher
• Hostile? The reason's clear to me, you might say
• Endure endlessly without love? One can't complain
• Ancient philosopher