One similarity is the delay - under the traditions of Confucian mourning - between the death of Kim Jong-il on Saturday and the announcement more than a day later.
The Korean War installation falls somewhere between mourning and learning.
A straight line runs between mourning and electioneering, apparently.
They are poised between mourning and what must be a tempting uncertainty.
As residents and students of the local yeshivas gathered by the police lines that closed off the area around the synagogue, reactions were split between mourning and anger.
This was an outdoor theatrical performance in a churchyard that included various traditional forms of mourning and tilted between somber and whimsical.
Though Saturday was meant to be a day of mourning, hostilities continued between the government and Autostrade per l'Italia, which had been responsible for maintaining the highway that included the Genoa bridge.
A tall Abe Lincoln, wearing a long mourning coat, stood between grim black-and-white incarnations of Lady Liberty, looking a bit goth, and Lady Justice, whose scales were tipped by a bag of money.
Dong Xinwu Dependants Wife Chen Yanchun, son Song Xinyao, 17, and the family's two grandmothers Debt 240,000 yuan (£15,900) Monthly income 500 yuan (£33) The Fujian style of mourning is somewhere between a lament and an undulating, almost melodic wail of misery.
Didion's candour about these things was welcome, for in bereavement the public and private struggle to be reconciled: between mourning as public fact and mourning as private experience lies a gulf that Didion, as a writer, was able to navigate.
