AtD translation: a field of bells emerged into flower

[Mike Jing]

This sound/image did cross my mind, but I wasn't sure. Is there place for a
field of bellflowers in Murano/Venice? That's noticeable from a balloon?



On Sat, Feb 16, 2019 at 4:07 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?
>
> 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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