GR translation: feel less than a stranger

[jochen stremmel]

In the reach of war's empire, I would say: yes.

2011/12/15 Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>:
> 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?