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BACKGROUND The printed book has been framed as a combinatorial machine by poets (Mallarmé, 1897; Borges, 1941; Lutz, 1959), and critics (Calvino, 1989; Nelson, 1980; Deleuze & Guattari, 1980), who consider the book to be a system constructed between reader, technology, and language. This research questions how these concepts play out in light of recent advancements in the use of AI by info-glomerates such as Google in their quest for universal knowledge (Groys, 2012). What role does the human play in an automated acquisition of universal written culture? CONTRIBUTION This research comprises a live-data driven reinterpretation of Mallarmé's cryptic poem "Un Coup de Dés Jamais N'Abolira Le Hasard" (1887), generating new texts in an attempt to reveal the poem's combinatorial potential. Exploring the poem's notions of chance, Athrow... is re-editioned by mapping images from Google's reCAPTCHA service to the ground-breaking spatial organisation of Mallarmé's work. Infinite re-editions of the 12 page poem are re-submitted to Google Books as unique publications that in turn are unreadable by Google and return once more to reCAPTCHA. The algorithmic e-literature, designed by Simionato (coded by Karen ann Donnachie), leverages 'unreadable' words through an algorithmic e-literature work designed by Simionato (coded by Karen ann Donnachie). SIGNIFICANCE Athrow... premiered in the leading international conference of E-Literature-ELO 2015-via a competitive 3 step jury review process. The work was screened in the curated ELO2015 Hybridity and Synaesthesia exhibition at Lydgalleriet, Bergen, Norway, and subsequently exhibited in the curated, Australia Council funded, group show "Words Beyond Grammar", at Spectrum Gallery, WA, 2016, and will be published in a book of the same name in 2016.