She was lost in the crowd of people pouring forth.

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The poioumenon has a long prehistory (hardly a tradition), going back through Beckett's trilogy and Carlyle's Sartor Resartus to Sterne's Tristram Shandy; but it is preeminently a postmodernist genre.

The forty-nine words in the psalm also correspond to the seven days of Sefirat Ha'omer and the seven verses in the psalm correspond to the seven weeks one counts the Omer.