More hot meme action

The delectable Suw has tagged me with the following all-action meme thingie:

1. Grab the book closest to you.
2. Open to page 123, go down to the fifth sentence.
3. Post the text of the next three sentences on your blog.
4. Name of the book and the author.
5. Tag three people.

So, here we go...

He hesitated, watching the technicians lift the plastic motorcyclist - 'Elvis' - on to his machine, and then strode on towards us, beckoning to Helen Remington and myself. He scanned the visitors with a somehow offensive gaze. Once again he struck me as being a strange mixture of personal hauntedness, complete confinement in his own panicky universe, and yet at the same time open to all kinds of experiences from the outer world.

- Crash by J. G. Ballard

There you go. It took me a few minutes to decide if Crash was hanging over the edge of my bookshelf a little more than Jack Womack's Random Acts Of Senseless Violence (a wonderful book, by the way, which you should all read).

Right, I think I'll tag Jai, Kathryn and Em. Job done.