Encyclopedia: Bells, credit cards, and stalkers.

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@@ -503,18 +503,23 @@ bell of opening
 	* Old Tom was the single cracked bronze bell in the University
 	bell tower.
 		[ Eric, by Terry Pratchett ]
-*bell
+~*engraved*bell*
-	They were old Chimes, trust me.  Centuries ago, these Bells had
+*bell*
-	been baptized by bishops: so many centuries ago, that the register
+	Hear the sledges with the bells --
-	of their baptism was lost long, long before the memory of man, and
+	    Silver bells!
-	no one knew their names.  They had had their Godfathers and 
+	What a world of merriment their melody foretells!
-	Godmothers, these Bells (for my own part, by the way, I would
+	How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle,
-	rather incur the responsibility of being Godfather to a Bell than
+	    In the icy air of night!
-	a Boy), and had their silver mugs no doubt, besides.  
+	While the stars that oversprinkle
-	But Time had mowed down their sponsors, and Henry the Eighth had
+	All the heavens, seem to twinkle
-	melted down their mugs; and they now hung, nameless and mugless, 
+	    With a crystalline delight;
-	in the church-tower.
+	Keeping time, time, time,
-		[ The Chimes, by Charles Dickens ]
+	In a sort of Runic rhyme,
+	To the tintinabulation that so musically wells
+	From the bells, bells, bells, bells,
+	    Bells, bells, bells --
+	From the jingling and the tinkling of the bells.
+		[ The Bells, by Edgar Allan Poe ]
 blindfold
 	The blindfolding was performed by binding a piece of the
 	yellowish linen whereof those of the Amahagger who condescended
@@ -1083,9 +1088,19 @@ cream pie
 		[ The Vor Game, by Lois McMaster Bujold ]
 credit card
 charge card
-	Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of
+	"We are not worried about the expiration date," repeated the
-	imagination.
+	barman, satisfied that he now had Ford Prefect's full attention;
-		[ Oscar Wilde ]
+	"we are worried about the entire piece of plastic."
+	"What?" said Ford.  He seemed a little taken aback.
+	"This," said the barman, holding out the card as if it were a
+	small fish whose soul had three weeks earlier winged its way to
+	the Land Where Fish Are Eternally Blessed.  "We don't accept it."
+	[...]
+	"But you don't understand," said Ford, his expression slowly
+	ripening from a little taken abackness into rank incredulity,
+	"this is the American Express card.  It is the finest way of
+	settling bills known to man.  Haven't you read their junk mail?"
+		[ So Long, and Thanks For All The Fish, by Douglas Adams ]
 *crocodile
 	A big animal with the appearance of a lizard, constituting
 	an order of the reptiles (_Loricata_ or _Crocodylia_), the
@@ -5042,12 +5057,32 @@ stair*
 	Dr. Peter Venkman:  They go up.
 		[ Ghostbusters, directed by Ivan Reitman,
 		  written by Dan Ackroyd and Harold Ramis ]
-stalker
+*stalker
-invisible stalker
+	“You don’t understand,” he said, “who I am or what I am. I’ll show
-	The Writer: Won't they come after us?
+	you. By Heaven! I’ll show you.” Then he put his open palm over his
-	The Stalker: No, they're scared to death of it.
+	face and withdrew it. The centre of his face became a black
-	The Writer: Of what?
+	cavity. “Here,” he said. He stepped forward and handed Mrs. Hall
-		[ Stalker, directed by Andrei Tarkovsky ]
+	something which she, staring at his metamorphosed face, accepted
+	automatically. Then, when she saw what it was, she screamed
+	loudly, dropped it, and staggered back. The nose—it was the
+	stranger’s nose! pink and shining—rolled on the floor.
+
+	Then he removed his spectacles, and everyone in the bar gasped. He
+	took off his hat, and with a violent gesture tore at his whiskers
+	and bandages. For a moment they resisted him. A flash of horrible
+	anticipation passed through the bar. “Oh, my Gard!” said some one.
+	Then off they came.
+
+	It was worse than anything. Mrs. Hall, standing open-mouthed and
+	horror-struck, shrieked at what she saw, and made for the door of
+	the house. Everyone began to move. They were prepared for scars,
+	disfigurements, tangible horrors, but nothing! The bandages and
+	false hair flew across the passage into the bar, making a
+	hobbledehoy jump to avoid them. Everyone tumbled on everyone else
+	down the steps. For the man who stood there shouting some
+	incoherent explanation, was a solid gesticulating figure up to the
+	coat-collar of him, and then—nothingness, no visible thing at all!
+		[ The Invisible Man, by H. G. Wells ]
 ~statue trap
 statue*
 	Then at last he began to wonder why the lion was standing so