AtD translation: a field of bells emerged into flower

[Mike Weaver]

Which argues for bellflowers being historically common to the area.

On 18/02/2019 12:41, Mark Kohut wrote:
> 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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