sentences:  He just needed about ten years and some start-up financing; the blueprints were already written up.Thoreau's review includes several lengthy excerpts from Etzler's book that give a good feel for its contents and its bombast.To a large extent, Thoreau lets the book review itself through these demonstrative excerpts, only occasionally stopping to advance a minor technical quibble against a grandiose technological extrapolation or to experiment with going even further out on Etzler's limb.