AtD translation: a field of bells emerged into flower

[Mark Kohut]

As if it matters to anyone now, having learned that Venice is famous for
having lots of bell--towers---I, not knowing the city
at all but only that it was those islands, all that water, and good-sized,
did not think there were as many bell--towers as there are
that could easily make that image work. ....and 'emerged into flower'
seemed awkward not a perfect metaphor.

https://www.myveniceapartment.com/bell-towers-you-shouldnt-overlook-in-venice/

More research leads to it being hard to find the famous flowers referred
to, in linguistic shorthand, as 'bells' esp 100 years ago.

I now think I was wrong and Jochen right.

Mike Jing probably thought that all along and so it goes.

Thanks, Jochen.


On Mon, Feb 18, 2019 at 2:44 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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