What if you guys had a BAM-type feature where you didn't super-compress novels, but rather expanded them? I'm not saying expand the whole novel, but rather expand one little point, and explain how_____, that (seemingly insignificant) incident in the novel is really symbolic for_____(fill in the blanks).

For example, in the book "Ender's Game" (page 235), there is a scene where Ender Wiggin, the protagonist of the novella, comes back to earth and crushes a wasp with a bare finger. I could take this scene, and interpret "wasp" to mean "White Anglo-Saxon Protestant", and that Orson Scott Card was really trying to say that Brigham Young, the hero-figure of the Mormons, totally disproved the Protestant way of thinking (whatever that may be) with a single gesture.

[Of course, considering that Orson Scott Card wrote this story from the world-view of a Mormon, this is an entirely possible, if improbable, assumption to make.]

Ideally, you would probably want to stretch it a bit farther, and sort of do a combination of Book-A-Minute, I Think, and maybe a little Crazy Libs thrown in for good measure, all applied to one sentance or phrase that doesn't seem to hold any particular importance in itself, that at the same time would radically change your entire perspective on the novel as a whole.

Consider it a challenge.

Any ideas?

-John W.