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Daniel Allen , Freelance writer

Almost middle-aged and in need of attention

I got fixated by a troublesome philosophical argument when I was young: did characters in comics continue conversing when I wasn't there? Or did the Bash Street Kids fall silent and did Dennis the Menace's speech bubble simply evaporate?

Nursing Standard. 15, 31, 19-19. doi: 10.7748/ns.15.31.19.s33

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