Barbara Kingsolver (post 2), when writing, goes to “novel-neverland”: an allusion to J. M. Barrie’s Neverland and child-aged alternate personalities?

In yesterday’s post, I quoted Kingsolver as saying that when she has a good day of writing, she goes to “novel-neverland” where “time disappears.”

It could be that her allusion to J. M. Barrie’s Neverland was only to its timelessness, but it is hard to believe that any allusion to Neverland does not also allude to Peter Pan and children who never grow up, especially since Kingsolver wants children as main characters.

As I discuss in my four posts on J.M. Barrie (search “Barrie”), Peter Pan is a multiple personality story, since the only kind of children who live but never grow up are child-aged alternate personalities.