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5. Kurtz’s infamous cry at the climax of Conrad's Heart of Darkness (111-117), which also featuresin Coppola’s updated film version, Apocalypse Now (1979). As is well known, ‘The horror’ was tobe the epigraph of T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land (as it is, Eliot used “Mistah Kurtz ... he dead” as theepigraph for the later The Hollow Men). Readers familiar with my essay “((P(re(cursing))))(post)Modernist Fiction” will already know that both of these poems, along with the earlier “TheLovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock”, enter into Apocalypse Now at the diegetic level:Marlon Brando'sKurtz reads from an Eliot volume, whilst the Dennis Hopper character quotes Eliot. (L.T.)