Hospital: "a study of authors who become reclusive" / name confusion

[Michael Bailey]

jbor at bigpond.com wrote:
> Ran across this the other day in Janette Turner Hospital's story 'For
> Mr Voss or Occupant' (publ. 1991):
>    "Or maybe it's the other way round. Maybe the
> characters swallow up the author. You know,
> move in and take over. With both White and
> Pynchon, you get a sense in the later novels
> of *invasion*, and there's a line in Dickinson —"

http://www.libyrinth.com/pynchon/pynchon_biography.html
"Then he went on to tell me that the characters he wrote about came
alive late at night and made a big mess in the kitchen, leaving
cigarette butts and bottles everywhere, which he had to clean up in
the morning. He said this with such earnestness that I thought I heard
them snoring in the back bedroom, recovering from the late night
party."

apologies, jbor, for some reason it got stuck in my mind that your
name was jody but i think that is wrong, so please excuse the many
times i've quoted your words under that name