Re: GR translation: he’s already stopped believing in the rocket he saw

[David Morris]

He's stopped believing in this particular rocket's (the one he saw
from the roof) power.

On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 2:24 AM, Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com> wrote:
> P8.29-35   Pirate goes to the phone and rings up Stanmore after all.
> Has to go through the usual long, long routine, but knows he’s already
> stopped believing in the rocket he saw. God has plucked it for him,
> out of its airless sky, like a steel banana. “Prentice here, did you
> have anything like a pip from Holland a moment ago. Aha. Aha. Yes, we
> saw it.” This could ruin a man’s taste for sunrises. He rings off.
> “They lost it over the coast. They’re calling it premature
> Brennschluss.”
>
> What does it mean that he has "stopped believing in the rocket he saw"?