Indeed, there is one, "Les Chasseurs," that performs the mildly incredible feat of reconciling me to Courbet's hunting scenes.
This desperation recipe, a last-resort dessert if ever there was one, did not reconcile me to canned peach halves.
Even Jackson cannot reconcile me to the gobbledegook of the hovel scene but she is superb in the play's later stages.
I had never listened to Bessie Smith in America (in the same way that, for years, I would not touch watermelon), but in Europe she helped to reconcile me to being a "nigger".
Not even the efforts of Stuart McLoughlin and Rosalie Craig can reconcile me to the goody-goody John and Susan, but the evening has an imaginative consistency and inventiveness that should appeal to even the most hydrophobic children.
Like James Baldwin, who wrote that hearing Bessie Smith for the first time "helped to reconcile me to being a 'nigger,' " Wilson saw the moment as an epiphany: "a birth, a baptism, and a redemption all rolled up into one".
