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
• Collecting award, sister's not excited?
• Cloths to absorb moisture: better keep the ends dry
• Indifferent to pain
• Indifferent part of Dreiser's desire
• ... thus digests book about Zeno of Citium, perhaps
• Sedate sister accepts an honour
• Resilient philosopher
• Thus 'e's out of drink — becoming this?
• Endure endlessly without love? One can't complain