Stice stuck to the window (Time and Perception)
Kenkle and Brandt not only got Himself onto the right color train and kept him propped up between them all the way up the eternity of Comm. Ave., they’d seen him safely down the T-stop’s steep iron stairs and across traffic and up the hill’s serpentine driveway to the portcullis
Context
The janitors' origin story: Kenkle and Brandt, riding the T recreationally at night, once hauled a very drunk Himself home to Enfield — and the avenue's whole length compresses into one lived-duration phrase, "the eternity of Comm. Ave." A passing flicker, but the idiom is the theme's: distance measured in felt time.