“We worked together on an animated movie, then started going out, and she became my first real girlfriend,” Jobs recalled. As Brennan later said, “Steve was kind of crazy. That’s why I was attracted to him.” Jobs’s craziness was of the cultivated sort. He had begun his lifelong experiments with compulsive diets, eating only fruits and vegetables, so he was as lean and tight as a whippet. He learned to stare at people without blinking, and he perfected long silences punctuated by staccato bursts of fast talking. This odd mix of intensity and aloofness, combined with his shoulder-length hair and scraggly beard, gave him the aura of a crazed shaman. He oscillated between charismatic and creepy. “He shuffled around and looked half-mad,” recalled Brennan. “He had a lot of angst. It was like a big darkness around him.” (Chapter 3 The Dropout: Chrisann Brennan)
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喬布斯後來回憶道：“我們一起製作了一部動畫電影，後來我們開始約會，她成了我第一任正式女友。” 布倫南後來表示：“史蒂夫有點瘋狂，不過這也正是他吸引我的地方。” 喬布斯的瘋狂是有教養的那種。他開始並堅持了一輩子強制性的飲食實驗：只吃水果和蔬菜，所以他的`樣子又瘦弱又結實，像只敏捷的惠比特犬。他學會了眼睛一眨不眨地盯着別人看，也喜歡在長時間的沉默間斷斷續續突然快速地講話。他這種奇怪的個性組合：高度緊張卻又超然離羣，再加上他的外表——齊肩的頭髮和凌亂的鬍子，讓他看起來像是個瘋狂的薩滿巫師。喬布斯的狀態起伏不定：時而魅力四射，時而令人毛骨悚然。布倫南後來回憶道：“他個性善變，看起來半瘋半癲的樣子。他老是很焦慮，似乎一團黑暗包圍着他。”
