{"product_id":"cellar-door","title":"Cellar Door","description":"\u003cp\u003eÒThe claim that cellar door is beautiful to the ear Ñ in opposition to its prosaic meaning Ñ has been made by and attributed to a wide variety of writers over the years. ÒPoetry, in fact, is two quite distinct things,Ó H. L. Mencken wrote in a 1920 magazine column. ÒIt may be either or both. One is a series of words that are intrinsically musical, in clang-tint and rhythm, as the single word cellar-door is musical. The other is a series of ideas, false in themselves, that offer a means of emotional and imaginative escape from the harsh realities of everyday.ÓÉ\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp\u003eMore recently, the superior sound of cellar door was mentioned in the 2001 movie ÒDonnie Darko,Ó in which a cellar serves as a time-twisting portal. In one scene, the main character, Donnie, sees the phrase on a schoolroom chalkboard. He asks his teacher why itÕs on the board, and she explains that the words are thought to be especially lovely, vaguely attributing the idea to a Òfamous linguist.Ó Ó \u003cbr\u003e\nÐ the New York Times\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksWholesale","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44217111281825,"sku":"bcramer3824","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0462\/1120\/3233\/files\/19km69ny-front-shortedge-384.jpg?v=1713654845","url":"https:\/\/bookswholesale.myshopify.com\/products\/cellar-door","provider":"BooksWholesale","version":"1.0","type":"link"}