
Missourians sometimes speak of a place called Hacklebarney: a nonexistent town you try to get to that is forever just around the next curve or just over the next hill, a town you believe in but never get to. Maybe that's enlightenment--always a little ahead of perception.
-excerpt: BLUE HIGHWAYS - A Journey Into America,
by William Least Heat Moon, 1982
by William Least Heat Moon, 1982
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