AtD translation: a field of bells emerged into flower

[Jochen Stremmel]

Mike, Mike, Mark and whoever cares,

Pynchon begins his sentence, his paragraph, his chapter with "Across the
city" – the city obviously being Venice, not Murano, where the boys happen
to come swooping in over. There's no need for a glance at Google maps, no
more than for reading what is written there, anyway.

Don't think I'm riffing, btw.

Am Mo., 18. Feb. 2019 um 15:04 Uhr schrieb Mike Weaver <
mike.weaver at zen.co.uk>:

> A quick glance at Google Maps reveals the whole of the north of the
> island is green space and there are other patches to the south of that.
> And we are talking about  100 years ago and more when those spaces might
> well have been fields rather than parks. And there are probably several
> campanulas native or endemic to Italy. The only one it is unlikely to be
> is Italian Bellflower which is native to the mountains.
> It is always enjoyable reading the riffing that many of you enjoy as a
> response to P's writing, but sometimes that is what they are - riffs,
> and the original is at base a poetic description.
>
> cheers
> Mike
>
>
> On 18/02/2019 07:43, Jochen Stremmel 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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