ok so some people are asking me about the camilla - glass - antler thing soooooo here is a thread of my bacchanal theory for those who don’t already know it hahaha
Firstly, throughout the book donna establishes a thing with camilla and glass. she throws the ashtray at bunny, the shot glass at the mirror, and of course she gets the piece of glass stuck in her foot. so camilla and glass is a bit of a recurring theme
On the topic of the glass foot scene, that also tells us that there are pieces of broken glass lying around the floor in the grounds surrounding the country house, which is where the bacchanal supposedly took place
We are also told at some point in the book, that while hallucinating, camilla thought she was a deer.
i think that she found a piece of glass on the floor, and thinking she was a deer at the time, thought that the piece of glass was her antler and she headbutted the farmer to death with it.
this explains a) why she had blood in her hair but nowhere else on her body and b) why she was ahead of all the others according to henry’s story.
as for other bacchanal theories, there are dozens of really good ones but another one i personally love is the wild animal theory.
obviously there was no murder investigation into the death of the farmer as we learn from the newspaper clipping, the police had just assumed that it was a gruesome encounter with a wild animal.
What if that's true, and the group didn't actually kill the farmer, but their shenanigans disturbed a wild animal which caused it to get violent? this also explains charles's bite mark.
also later in the book, richard and francis run into an ambiguous wild animal of which neither of them can confidently confirm what it is.
obviously nothing in literature is there on accident and i definitely feel like there is no way a moment like this isn’t important to the plot somehow, especially in a book that is absolutely FULL of details, symbolism and foreshadowing.
i love this theory becuse the fact that if the group hadn't actually killed the farmer, then bunny wasn't actually in the way of anything. this would mean that bunny died for no reason other than complete hubris of the group and i think that ties into the key message of the book.