GR translation: feel less than a stranger

[jochen stremmel]

I think that he regrets the discrepancy between his wish to be
understood by his own lot and his feeling at least slightly at home at
Snoxall's with its sods and freaks and their dedication and tolerance.

2011/12/15 Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>:
> P33.39-P34.3   Pirate wants Their trust, the
> good-whisky-and-cured-Latakia scent of Their rough love. He wants
> understanding from his own lot, not these bookish sods and
> rationalized freaks here at Snoxall’s so dedicated to Science, so
> awfully tolerant that this (he regrets it with all his heart) may be
> the only place in the reach of war’s empire that he does feel less
> than a stranger. . . .
>
> What does it mean that "he does feel less than a stranger"?  And why
> does he regret it?