Conceited Independence
Welcome to Conceitedindependence.com - this is a personal website. I chose this (very long) domain name based on one of my favorite quotes from Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice:
"To walk three miles, or four miles, or five miles, or whatever it is, above her ankles in dirt, and alone, quite alone! What could she mean by it? It seems to me to show an abominable sort of conceited independence,a most country town indifference to decorum." - Chapter 8
This is the opinion expressed by Miss Bingley after Lizzie has the nerve to tromp across the countryside to visit her sick sister.
The site motto (on the left there) is also a quote about our heroine from Miss Bingley:
"In her air altogether there is a self-sufficiency without fashion, which is intolerable." - Chapter 45
I'll leave it to you to decide to what degree either of these remarks might describe myself...
(BTW, you can read the full text of Pride and Prejudice for free at Project Gutenburg.)
As for what's on this site, several completely unrelated things. I am a fan of many things Japanese, particularly the Takarazuka theater (Some folks may know me as "Hotaru" from my old site - I'm not using that anymore now that I have my own domain and am free of Earthlink.). I also have a nutria info page. I am no longer working on my Sakamoto Fuyumi (a famous enka singer) fan page now that I'm Takarazuka-crazy, but hope to get the old site online for reference purposes at some point.
Acknowledgements: Wonderful website host is Laughing Squid. Content Management System is CMS Made Simple.
