Glossary
Cellar Door
The phrase Ms Pomeroy calls the most beautiful in the English language - and the door Donnie enters to find Gretchen at Grandma Death’s house on the final night.
Karen Pomeroy, after being fired, tells Donnie that "a famous linguist once said that of all the phrases in the English language, of all the endless combinations of words in all of history, that 'cellar door' is the most beautiful." (The claim is usually attributed to J. R. R. Tolkien.) On the night of October 29 Donnie sees the words "CELLAR DOOR" carved into wood at Roberta Sparrow's house - a signpost, from the Manipulated Living, to where the Ensurance Trap is waiting.