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the essence of frigidity

The front of the American grocery store contains a strange, liminal space: the transitional area between parking lot and checkstand, along the front exterior and interior of the building, that fills with oddball commodities. Ice is a fixture at nearly every store, filtered water at most, firewood at some. This retail purgatory, both too early and too late in the shopping journey for impulse purchases, is mostly good only for items people know they will need as they check out. One of the standard residents of this space has always struck me as peculiar: dry ice.

Carbon dioxide ice is said to have been invented, or we might better say discovered, in the 1830s. For whatever reason, it took just about a hundred years for the substance to be commercialized. Thomas B. Slate was a son