GR translation: that stateless lascar across his own mirror-glass

[Michael Bailey]

>  Mike Jing wrote:
>
>> daily self-criticism, its demands for total attention . . . and what
>> foreigner is it, exactly, that Pirate has in mind if it isn’t that
>> stateless lascar across his own mirror-glass, that poorest of exiles.
>> . . .
>>
>> According to the Wiki, this refers to Roger Mexico, is that correct?
>> What is "his own mirror-glass" referring to?
>
> Pirate suspects that Mexico is involved with or aware of or somehow
> working in a way that involves these exiles in London
>
> however, the stateless lascar across his mirror glass, isn't that
> Pirate himself?  all these exiles have something in common with Pirate
> in terms of being constantly intriguing in conflicts peripheral to the
> main Allies-Axis war (Pirate will eventually join the Counterforce,
> eg) - and he is also the object of some of Mexico's work, bringing
> rocket messages to ACHTUNG and so forth.
>
> also it's clear that he will never be part of the real Establishment,
> as the romance with Scorpia has shown him, so he is to that extent
> stateless himself.
>
> so he's self-pityingly grouping himself with these pitiful characters