GR translation: feel less than a stranger

[Mike Jing]

So "feel less than a stranger" means "feel at least slightly at home"?

On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 5:36 AM, jochen stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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?