In the field of plastic arts, the idea [of recombination] was not entirely new, since Breughel the Elder several years before had numbered the colors of his characters in order to determine their distribution by a roll of the dice;
— Berge, Claude. “For a Potential Analysis of Combinatory Literature.” The New Media Reader. 1973. Eds. Wardrip-Fruin, Noah and Nick Montfort. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 2003. 177-81.
