AtD translation: a field of bells emerged into flower

[Jochen Stremmel]

Right, Mike, there surely is no field of bellflowers in Venice, especially
not one that emerges at noontide into flower and could be seen from a
balloon.

Am Mo., 18. Feb. 2019 um 06:42 Uhr schrieb Mike Jing <
gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>:

> 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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