わからない個所を教えてください。
‘Oh. I'll try to speak up. Yes –it says here that she wants to cover themes in your work, and she's listed a few. She wanted me to ask you if you can think these over and come up with some ideas –you know, why they feature, what significance they have for you, symbolism, all that. Then she'll talk to you and turn it all into some kind of stream-of-consciousness thing. I think –yes, she says she wants to run it along the bottom third of some of the catalogue pages, with the pictures and the notes on them above. Can you visualize that? Alex?'
(↑前回の終わりの部分です）
‘Yes,’ I say. ‘It sounds fine.’
‘OK. There are a few things on this list, but the main ones – do you have a pen?’
‘I’ll remember,’ I say.
‘All right. First – intersections of form and surface. That’s a principal element, apparently. She also writes: transgressions of boundaries; crossing edges; intrusions of one form into another. Is this making sense to you?’
‘Yes,’ I say, slowly. ‘Yes, I know what she means.’
‘Thank God for that. Then we’ve got group-of-three motifs: groupings of forms in arrangements of three; similar forms repeated three times, ungrouped but within the same work; trilaterally symmetrical forms or forms divided into three.’ He pauses. ‘Are you sure you can remember all this?’
‘You have to concentrate, Alex,’ my father is saying. ‘How can you remember things if you don’t concentrate?’
‘I try,’ I say.
‘Well, try trying a bit harder.’
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「The Dandelion clock」からの英文です。
：主人公のAlexと知人と思われるMaxが電話で話している場面です。
transgressions of boundaries; crossing edges; intrusions of one form into another.ここはどういう感じのことを言っているのでしょうか？
similar forms repeated three times, ungrouped but within the same work; trilaterally symmetrical forms or forms divided into threeの部分もよくわかりません。
Well, try trying a bit harder.とありますが、try a bit harderというのとどういう違いがあるのでしょうか？
教えてください。お願いします。
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