Manny Weissman is a metafictional character who appears in Bad Twin, a novel written by Flight 815 passenger Gary Troup
Facts
- Paul Artisan's friend and former professor at Columbia
- Has a dog, a chocolate lab named Argos, who he shares with Paul Artisan.
- 76 years old
- Lives in apartment 11J of his building
Literature, Authors & Characters Manny Mentions
- A river runs through it
- New Testament - Book of Luke - Prodigal Son
- Dante
- Trent's last case
- Sherlock Holmes
- The Turn of the Screw
- Emerson
- Odysseus
- Eros & Thantos
- Lord of the Flies
Manny's insightful quotes
- "Loving isnt saving. No one can save another person."
- "True stories usually dont have cheery endings. A cheery ending usually means that the story has been tampered with, and the game has been rigged."
- "Sinister is the latin word for left."
- "Purgatory, thats when everything is up for grabs. The stakes could get higher. There is suffering, but unlike on earth, the suffering isn't senseless and random. It has meaning and a purpose. Destinies balance on a knife edge. The slightest slip dooms you to perdition. Not just for a while. Forever. No more second chance. Purgatory is the second chance. The last chance. The hard road and the only road that can lead on to redemp--"
- (Talking about The Turn of the Screw) "Turns out there are other inferences, other deductions"
- "Life is complicated. Thats the point. It's like a string of numbers, you add them up, there's only one solution."
- "Love is the closest thing to an antidote for mortality."
- "There is a kind of truth that can be found in books, and a kind of truth than could be found in deeds."
- Old Scottish law. It's really a unique code."
Theories
- Name sounds like "Many Wise Men". Could refer to all the classic authors that he refers to in his stories of enlightenment to Paul Artisan.