WELL YES I can see why everyone considers this a future classic if not a modern classic rn. Will say I thought the second half dragged a bit but I think it's purposeful in that you're meant to feel like things could get Worse At Any Moment. Kind of wish

the bacchanal, or *A* Bacchanal

was on-page as what we hear about it second-hand feels like it would lend itself really well to the literary artform though I guess it being

essentially a drug trip gone horrendously wrong (& sexual)

would be giving 60s & 70s literary fiction rather than 10s & 20s literary fiction which is where we're trying to stay. I love how every character feels so man-out-of-time and how Bunny is ALSO the man-out-of-time among them -- imagine living in the early 60s while your friends live in, like, 1905, and then all of you are actually living in 1994. Love the unapologetic pretentiousness in the most complimentary sense of the word. Just New England LAC things <3