Where is your sense of humor, Ed? Grave Digger asked. "I haven't got any," Coffin Ed admitted as he holstered his revolver and got back into the car. "They burned it out of me."

After Coffin Ed roughs up a simpleminded wino for a joke.

— Grave Digger, Coffin Ed in Harlem Cycle #4 - The Big Gold Dream (Chester Himes, 1959)


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