AtD translation: a field of bells emerged into flower

[David Morris]

Right.  It's the bells that are "flowering" at noontide:  They are ringing!
It's really that simple.

David Morris


On Mon, Feb 18, 2019 at 8:34 AM Jochen Stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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