Faulkner et Battaile

"And the next morning they found him in his shirt tail, laying asleep on the floor like a felled steer, and the top of the box bored clean full of holes and Cash's new auger broke of in the last one. When they taken the lid off they found that two of them had bored on into her face"

"I think to myself he aint that less of a man or he couldn't a bore himself this long"

""I have bore you what the Lord God sent me" (73).

The scene after Addie Bundren's death and coffining proved to be confusingly hilarious to me. It certainly was gory, but nonetheless humorous to me. I also am a large horror/gore movie fan, so perhaps this isn't what Faulkner was aiming at, but when looking at his choice of words, I have to think that he shared some sense of humor similar to mine. Most of this writing seemed like Batailles automatism, and this particular scene when Vardaman drills two holes through his mothers face, I liked to imagine them going straight through her eyes. This also led me back to Bataille and his fascination for the symbol in The Story of The Eye. Perhaps Faulkner read Bataille, or Bataille Faulkner, as they were contemporaries of one another. Apparently Faulkner had a large following in Europe as well. 

I'm not sure what Faulkner's mind was working at while writing this. It is morbid, sad, fragmented. It is also surprising and hilarious at times so far. 

Discussion Question: Did anyone else find this scene to be darkly humorous? What overall impression does the story so far make upon you. What is "the mood"?