The fatal police shooting of Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager, was a tragic event that demands explanation and resolution.
Explaining each tragic episode helps, but each explanation of a mentally deranged, alienated or radicalized individual seems somehow inadequate.
"We want to give them an opportunity to submit to us an explanation of how this tragic death came about," the minister, Bob Carr, told reporters in Sydney.
There's no simple explanation for Arek's tragic death.
For a clear explanation of how Aeschylus's tragic drama functions like a "God," transforming the self-understanding of fifth century Greece, see Dreyfus and Kelly 2011, 90-102.
The shooting also cracked open the now-familiar debate over sanctuary cities. Steinle's death was senseless and tragic, and it demanded some kind of explanation; Trump offered one by blaming San Francisco's sanctuary policies.
Pointing to the history of violence between Persija Jakarta and Persib Bandung, Marhali has several explanations for the spate of tragic incidents.
Others show up out of the blue and then, after a week or a month or a couple of years, disappear without explanation, though usually for reasons less tragic than those that explain the disappearance of Rich.
And all of the many interpretations of her smile – lonely, tragic, self-conscious, uncomfortable, superior, even sinister – depend on that lack of explanation.
There are well-reasoned therapeutic explanations why cleaning the closet is crucial when the tragic overtakes us.
