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Film Review: Cellar Doors and Creepy Rabbits

Fall film favorite “Donnie Darko” operates on a higher spiritual dimension.

By Kristen Baurain.

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J.R.R. Tolkien once claimed that “cellar door” is one of the most beautiful phrases in the English language. In his 1955 lecture “English and Welsh,” Tolkien made this assertion to explain phonaesthetics, the study of the beauty and pleasure in the sound of words outside of their meanings and spellings. To him, “cellar door” was more beautiful than “sky, and far more beautiful than ‘beautiful.’”
Phonaesthetic phrases like “cellar door,” which Tolkien thought were f...

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Grant Dutro

Grant Dutro is a senior Economics and Communication double major with a minor in English. Originally from Cincinnati, OH, in his spare time he likes watching detective movies, reading C.S. Lewis, rowing on your local body of water, and listening to 70s rock.

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