From: marysarinweb@gmail.com   
      
   i am reading Confederacy of dunces by Toole.   
   who can help me to understand the sentence in quotation in following paragraph:   
   He looked again at The Consolation of Philosophy, which was opened on his lap,   
   and turned a limp, damp page. The book was making him more depressed. The guy   
   who wrote it was going to be tortured by the king. The preface had said so."   
   Now all this time    
   the guy was writing this thing, he was going to end up with something driven   
   down into his head". Patrolman Mancuso felt sorry for the guy and felt obliged   
   to read what he had written.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)