For a Potential Analysis of Combinatory Literature by Claude Berge

• Leibniz claimed to come up with a new branch of math with developments in "logic, history, ethics, and metaphysics"
• 1961- Francois Le Lionnais - used "combinatory litearture"
• Issues of math are translatable to issues of language/literature
• First use of "combinatory literature" was Cent Mille Milliards de Poemes 
• Oulipian concepts:
• A desire to use new structures in their work, new constraints
  
• Research of "methods of automatic transformation of texts"
  
• "Transposition of concepts existing in difference branches of math... into the realm of words...
  
• 1967- Saporta publishes a "factorial" novel.  Factorial poetry:  text is able to be permeated in different ways-the meaning changes
• Fibonaccian poetry:  "a text which has been split into elements...and recited using only elements that were not juxtaposed in the original text..."
• 1966-dual form poem, the antipode 
• Episodic Stories - embedded stories