What Pynchon wrote?

[Terrance]

Paul Nightingale wrote:
> 
> The opening paragraph juxtaposes 'Blair' to 'Orwell'. You yourself have
> insisted, several times, on referring to the author as 'Blair';
> presumably you have a reason for that. Such name changes are not
> uncommon, of course, for writers and celebrities of one kind or another.
> Nonetheless, there is a gap between nom-de-plume and family-name. For O
> himself it might have been symbolic, given his move away from the
> circumstances of his upbringing. O-as-author also signifies the texts
> that bear his name, as well as the man himself.

What significance do you attribute to P addressing the identity
question? 
I prefer Blair to Orwell and Orwellian, which have become nearly
synonymous with "1984-like."