AtD translation: a field of bells emerged into flower

[Mike Jing]

That's what I was wondering about. Thanks, Jochen.

On Mon, Feb 18, 2019 at 2:43 AM Jochen Stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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