Kurtz Last Words

"The Horror! The Horror!"  Those were Kurtz's last words as he is sleeping on his death bed.  There are many differnt connotations and meanings surrounding what Kurntz might have meant.  One important thing about the scence is that after his last words, Marlow blows the candle out and the light of "knowlege" was gone.  The light of enlightment was lost and not there anymore.  More importantly however, Kurtz says the horror the horror, but what i belive in is that the horror is the horror of self enlightmeant is meaningless becasue it comes to late.  When he is looking back on his life, I feel that Kurtz is regretting what he was doing and although he cant go back and change it, he has an epiphany at the end when he says horror, horror, all the exploitation and all the raid and craziness he went through for the ivory and for traveling through the heart of darkness for self enlightment, was a waste and was a horror as he didnt grasp the meaning and self knowlege he wanted to grasp until the end of his life when it was meaningless.