AtD translation: a field of bells emerged into flower

[Mark Kohut]

Murano glass is famously made into bell flower shapes colorfully.

https://www.etsy.com/market/murano_glass_bell

On Mon, Feb 18, 2019 at 7:17 AM Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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