What Pynchon wrote?

[Terrance]

 Moreover, I would take this one step further and juxtapose Blair/the
world (ie the
> real, flesh-&-blood human being who really does live and breath) to
> Orwell/history-as-writing/the text ... which is precisely the opposition
> that P makes. Which I think answers your first question.

 I'm willing to admit that P constructs this opposition Blair/Orwell for
now.

 
What significance do you attribute to P addressing the identity
question?