his girlfriend, but then meets a girl named Claire, who saves him from himself through embracing the fun in life. But the manic pixie dream girl dates back to even before the term was created, the most notable being Audrey Hepburn’s roles in Roman Holiday (1953) and Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961). A more unexpected manic pixie dream girl is Belle from Beauty and the Beast (1991). The characters in these movies are fundamentally the same, for they remain the same throughout the plot and only further
on your face, even as you shivered in the brisk autumn air of the New England evening. I invited you inside. You said you missed me, and I said the same. We spent that night catching up, first talking about you and what you had been up to over the summer, for you’d changed since I last saw you. The Corinthian columns and aged red bricks of your Schoolhouse had been covered with scaffolding, and your classrooms were all mixed up and not where I remembered them to be. With your cheeks rosy—perhaps because
only had one blind date in my life. And I didn't really have it. I can think of more interesting situations that are like a blind date - say when someone gives you a book as a present, when they fix you up with that book. I was once given a book of essays about reading, writing, book collecting. I felt it was a perfect match. I started reading it right away, in the back seat of the car. I stopped listening to the conversation in the front. I like to read about how other people read and collect books