Explain

It's a pretty bad idea
to wring what happens
to get every drop
of meaning out of it.
-- Saul Bellow, "A Theft"

Head

A head unusually big.
In a person of an inert character
a head of such size
might have seemed a deformity;
in Clara, because
she had so much personal force,
it came across
as ruggedly handsome.
She needed that head;
a mind like hers demanded space.
-- Saul Bellow, "A Theft"