AtD translation: a field of bells emerged into flower

[David Morris]

I like that idea.

On Sat, Feb 16, 2019 at 3:06 AM Jochen Stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com> wrote:

> What about the bells of Venice, the city, ringing at noontide with all
> their might, and the flower being a metaphor for just this?
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> J
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> 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
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>> On Fri, Feb 15, 2019 at 8:22 PM Mike Weaver <mike.weaver at zen.co.uk>
>> wrote:
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>> > 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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