Charley Bob Diamond is home this summer following his freshman year of college. He's working as a persimmon pruner, the usual college summer job in Periwinkle County. There are also many locals who have never been to college who work in the persimmon paddies.
Charley Bob likes to drop into his conversations words like "biota," which means the total collection of organisms from a region or a time period, and announce to the other pruners in general that more sugar cane is raised each year in the world than all the corn and soybeans and persimmons put together.
Luke Wetzel, one of the locals, has taken to saying, especially to Charley Bob, "Biota me."
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