The title of Reinhold Aumaier's new book, a master of the short form, is also its program. The four- or five-line Zen verses serve as exercises in slowing down and detoxifying the soul and spirit, while simultaneously being an emphatic call for participation, internalization, and deepening - Zen sensitivity... a sharpened sense for the absurd as well as the beautiful in the here and now. Literature as a liberating strike and a new beginning: Chase God to hell, step out of purgatory, go to hell with hell, deliver salvation right to your door. "Just throw away Bibles of any kind and immerse yourselves for true edification and the necessary measure of enlightenment in the darkroom of existence." (Reinhold Aumaier).