My First Tag

Oh the silly things bloggers do to pass the time. For the uninitiated, to be tagged in the blogosphere is like receiving a chain letter in the mail (except without the baseless threats). As I have been tagged (and haven't posted anything in weeks), so will I do. The tag demands that I
1) Grab the book closest to me.
2) Open to page 123; go down to the fourth sentence.
3) Post the text of the following three sentences.
4) Name the author and book title.
5) Tag three people to do the same.

The dust hanging in the lights glistened like silica. The aguador stood by with his pail of water. He stepped over the parapet and walked toward the wolf and levered a shell into the chamber and halted ten feet from her and raised the rifle to his shoulder and took aim at the bloodied head and fired.
-Cormac McCarthy "The Crossing"

Just about every blogger I know has already been tagged, so I'll go ahead and tag no one three times. "The Crossing" is the second book of McCarthy's famed Border Trilogy. The first two books are definitely must reads.