“Everybody knows, in a general way, that the finest place in the world is — or, alas, was — the Dutch borough of Vondervotteimittiss.”
This is the opening line from the short story “The Devil in the Belfry” by Edgar Allan Poe. There is no real significance to the name Vondervotteimittiss in relation to this blog. It’s just the name of the town in a favorite story of mine.
As for Belfry, the one in the town clock tower is an important setting in the story. And here where I am, in the late summer evenings there are bats flying around. That is, in the yard, not actually in my workshop.
You can read the story on-line. For instance, here: https://www.eapoe.org/works/tales/dvlbfya.htm or here: https://poemuseum.org/the-devil-in-the-belfry/
The etching used is by Hermann Vögel and was published in The Works of Edgar Allen Poe, 1904 –https://archive.org/details/eootaleseapoe02edgarich/mode/2up
The Belfry 
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