AtD translation: a field of bells emerged into flower

[Jochen Stremmel]

What about the bells of Venice, the city, ringing at noontide with all
their might, and the flower being a metaphor for just this?

J

Am Sa., 16. Feb. 2019 um 04:46 Uhr schrieb David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com
>:

> My take:
>
> Island Murano's fame is its glass monopoly.  The objects, chimneys, that
> rise, "emerge," above the red clay roofs, are from glass furnaces. Maybe
> the flower imagery is from smoke plumes, but that's pretty weak. But might
> that smoke be blue, like the bell flower?
>
> David Morris
>
> On Fri, Feb 15, 2019 at 8:22 PM Mike Weaver <mike.weaver at zen.co.uk> wrote:
>
> > campanula's are known as bell flowers as here
> > <https://www.123rf.com/photo_55855915_field-with-wild-bellflower.html>
> >
> > On 16/02/2019 00:49, Mike Jing wrote:
> > > P243.1-6   Across the city noontide a field of bells emerged into
> flower,
> > > as the boys came swooping in over Murano, above wide-topped red-clay
> > > chimneys the size of smokestacks, known as fumaioli, according to the
> > local
> > > pilot, Zanni. “Very dangerous, the sparks, they could blow up the
> > balloon,
> > > certo,” drops of perspiration flying off his face at all angles, as if
> > > self-propelled.
> > >
> > > What does "a field of bells emerged into flower" mean here?
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