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Ana Leorne

@analeorne.bsky.social
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Virgo w/Sag rising. PhD. Obviously a witch. PT/EN/FR Author of This Is the Strangest Life I've Ever Known: A Psychological Portrait of Jim Morrison and Tropicália. All links here: linktr.ee/analeorne

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Aquarium Drunkard @aquariumdrunkard.com · 04/09/2026
Rão Kyao’s 1976 debut Malpertuis feels like an offspring of Portugal’s 1974 Carnation Revolution, which ended four decades of dictatorship and unleashed a cultural outpouring stifled by censorship and efforts to block outside influences deemed subversive. aquariumdrunkard.com/2026/09/04/r...
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Ana Leorne @analeorne.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Incredibly honored to be featured on the new Fenris Wolf (13 for luck!) alongside such amazing names like Mitch Horowitz, Gary Lachman, Mary Wild, Bri Luna and more! Thank you Carl and Vanessa for your great work ❤️ Get your copy here: amazon.com/dp/9198944932
cover of Fenris Wolf 13
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Ana Leorne @analeorne.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
It's that time of the year🎈 www.spinmagazine.com/2024/12/lou-...
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The Night Porto Out-Partied Lou Reed (and the Infamous 1980 Concert That Never Happened) - SPIN
Saint John's Eve is a big deal in my hometown of Porto, in Portugal. The night of June 23rd into the 24th marks the peak of midsummer festivities and During his 1980 Growing Up in Public tour, Lou Ree...
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Wewantsounds @wewantsounds.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
#BrionGysin "Dreamachine" LP reviewed at @aquariumdrunkard.com by Ana Leorne @analeorne.bsky.social 🔥🔥 "Produced by #ramuntchomatta, the 32-min track summons Gysin's artistic ethos to a haunting perfection" aquariumdrunkard.com/2026/04/01/b...
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Brion Gysin :: Dreamachine (1984/1992) - Aquarium Drunkard
Dreamachine gathers Brion Gysin's cult recordings in a blend of ambient, spoken word, avant-garde, minimalism, and afrobeat, mimicking the art device by translating its effects into an audio experienc...
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Aquarium Drunkard @aquariumdrunkard.com · 01/04/2026
Brion Gysin :: Dreamachine (1984/1992) aquariumdrunkard.com/2026/04/01/b... Dreamachine gathers Brion Gysin’s cult recordings in a blend of ambient, spoken word, avant-garde, minimalism, and afrobeat, mimicking the art device by translating its effects into an audio experience.
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Ana Leorne @analeorne.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Tropicália is 40% off on Bloomsbury website AND it's Carnaval week so this your sign to get it 🍍 www.bloomsbury.com/uk/tropic%C3...
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Tropicália
This comprehensive portrait of Tropicália, exploring everything from influences and results to context and main players, demonstrates how the genre helped reinv…
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Ana Leorne @analeorne.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Não sabia bem como ajudar assim à distância portanto fui aos meus arquivos buscar duas covers inéditas. Estão agora no Bandcamp com preço livre, e o dinheiro angariado vai para a Cruz Vermelha Portuguesa para apoiar as populações afectadas pela Kristin: analeorne.bandcamp.com/album/the-we...
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the west is the best., by Ana Leorne
2 track album
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Ana Leorne @analeorne.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Não sabia bem como ajudar assim à distância portanto fui aos meus arquivos buscar duas covers inéditas. Estão agora no Bandcamp com preço livre, e o dinheiro angariado vai para a Cruz Vermelha Portuguesa para apoiar as populações afectadas pela Kristin: analeorne.bandcamp.com/album/the-we...
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the west is the best., by Ana Leorne
2 track album
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Caryn Rose @carynrose.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
if you saw Patti Smith's Horses 50th tour in Chicago or New York or Boston you may be interested in my new more than a zine/less than a book about seeing a week of shows on that tour! independently produced, printed locally, shipping starts next week:
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THREE CHORDS AND BLESSED NOISE
“THREE CHORDS AND BLESSED NOISE” Patti Smith & Her Band Horses 50th Anniversary Chicago | New York City | Boston November 2025 a tour chronicle...
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Ana Leorne @analeorne.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
My David Bowie obituary for The 405, 10 years ago today. analeorne.medium.com/david-bowie-...
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David Bowie, 1947–2016
There’s a very well-known photo taken by Mick Rock during David Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust tour that I keep going back to. I’m sure you know…
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Ana Leorne @analeorne.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Every year (or almost) I record, mix, and share a new cover on New Year's Day. This year's the Velvet Underground's What Goes On. Enjoy ✨ soundcloud.com/analeorne/wh...
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The Velvet Underground's What Goes On
home recorded version of the Velvet Underground's What Goes On.
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Ana Leorne @analeorne.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
RIP MTV music channels. 15 years ago I had just started working at MTV Portugal, and despite the golden days being long gone by then the NY HQ always used to say we were the regional channel that had the most music programming slots. Here's one with the Lisbon team from 2013✨
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Ana Leorne @analeorne.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Happy 82nd birthday Jim Morrison and happy 2nd anniversary to my book! ✨ If you’re into psychoanalysis, philosophy, astrology, and of course rock n roll, this is for you. Get it here: amzn.to/4pBXrnD
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Carl Abrahamsson @carlabrahamsson.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
What? You haven’t read Ana Leorne’s great Jim Morrison book?? amzn.to/4pBXrnD ”This Is the Strangest Life I've Ever Known: A Psychological Portrait of Jim Morrison” #thedoors #analeorne #trapartbooks #jimmorrison
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Ana Leorne @analeorne.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Last days to get it 30% off and offer it for Christmas 🍍
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Ana Leorne @analeorne.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
You know what to do www.bloomsbury.com/us/tropic%C3...
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Ana Leorne @analeorne.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
For @aquariumdrunkard.com, I wrote about Raul Seixas's 1974 masterpiece Gita, which is getting a repress in red vinyl this month. Read it here: aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/10/01/r...
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Raul Seixas :: Gita - Aquarium Drunkard
A direct product of the Paul Coelho-sponsored introduction to alternative religion and mind-altering drugs, Raul Seixas' Gita finds the Brazilian musician further embracing mysticism through a bigger ...
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Ana Leorne @analeorne.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
For @aquariumdrunkard.com, I wrote about Raul Seixas's 1974 masterpiece Gita, which is getting a repress in red vinyl this month. Read it here: aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/10/01/r...
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Raul Seixas :: Gita - Aquarium Drunkard
A direct product of the Paul Coelho-sponsored introduction to alternative religion and mind-altering drugs, Raul Seixas' Gita finds the Brazilian musician further embracing mysticism through a bigger ...
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Megaera Lorenz @megaeralwrites.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
If your are in/know anyone in France, please help spread the word if possible. My sister-in-law has gone missing. She's been missing for about 18 hours. Here is information from my brother (🧵w/pictures). Please DM me if you have info.
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Open Culture @openculture.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
2,178 Occult Books Now Digitized & Put Online, Thanks to the Ritman Library and Da Vinci Code Author Dan Brown
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2,178 Occult Books Now Digitized & Put Online, Thanks to the Ritman Library and Da Vinci Code Author Dan Brown
In 2018 we brought you some exciting news.
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Ana Leorne @analeorne.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
To celebrate 3 months of my volume on Tropicália for Genre: A @3313books.bsky.social Series, I put together this bonus playlist* of 15 tracks I discuss in the book. *you can use the link on any streaming platform of your choice www.tunemymusic.com/share/v8dHMp...
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Tropicália (Genre: A 33 1/3 Series) - bonus playlist
Ana Leorne shared this playlist with you. shared via @tunemymusic
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Ana Leorne @analeorne.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
You know what to do: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/tropic%C3...
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Tropicália
This comprehensive portrait of Tropicália, exploring everything from influences and results to context and main players, demonstrates how the genre helped reinv…
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Ana Leorne @analeorne.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
A reminder that if you pay for my unreleased songs compilation on Bandcamp all money goes to Abortion Funds: analeorne.bandcamp.com/album/unrele...
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unreleased songs, by Ana Leorne
4 track album
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Ana Leorne @analeorne.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
Reupping this because I just finished watching the new Raul Seixas docuseries* and I feel I need more Maluco Beleza in my life. *Sociedade Kavernista gets a brief mention as does Sérgio Sampaio's absolute bop Eu Quero É Botar Meu Bloco na Rua
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Ana Leorne @analeorne.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Rereading Musicians and Their Audiences is out today on @bloomsburymus.bsky.social and includes my chapter on Rita Lee among loads of fantastic contributions ✨ 🪐Check it out here: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/rereading...
hardback copy of Rereading Musicians and Their Audiences and paperback copy of Rita Lee's autobiographypaperback copy of Rita Lee's autobiography and beginning of chapter Rita Lee and the Phantom
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Ana Leorne @analeorne.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Rita Lee's breakthrough album Fruto Proibido turns 50 today so I recorded a cover of Ovelha Negra. soundcloud.com/analeorne/ri...
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Rita Lee's Ovelha Negra
home recorded version of Rita Lee's Ovelha Negra
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Ana Leorne @analeorne.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Rita Lee's breakthrough album Fruto Proibido turns 50 today so I recorded a cover of Ovelha Negra. soundcloud.com/analeorne/ri...
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Rita Lee's Ovelha Negra
home recorded version of Rita Lee's Ovelha Negra
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Ana Leorne @analeorne.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
45 years ago today, my hometown out-partied Lou Reed. I wrote about what happened for Spin: www.spin.com/2024/12/lou-...
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The Night Porto Out-Partied Lou Reed (and the Infamous 1980 Concert That Never Happened)
Saint John's Eve is a big deal in my hometown of Porto, in Portugal. The night of June 23rd into the 24th marks the peak of midsummer festivities and coincides
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Ana Leorne @analeorne.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
45 years ago today, my hometown out-partied Lou Reed. I wrote about what happened for Spin: www.spin.com/2024/12/lou-...
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The Night Porto Out-Partied Lou Reed (and the Infamous 1980 Concert That Never Happened)
Saint John's Eve is a big deal in my hometown of Porto, in Portugal. The night of June 23rd into the 24th marks the peak of midsummer festivities and coincides
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Ana Leorne @analeorne.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
For my Aquarium Drunkard debut, a look at the great, the magnificent, the damned Sociedade da Grã-Ordem Kavernista Apresenta Sessão das 10. Also just realized Raul Seixas would have turned 80 this month.
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Ana Leorne @analeorne.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
For my Aquarium Drunkard debut, a look at the great, the magnificent, the damned Sociedade da Grã-Ordem Kavernista Apresenta Sessão das 10. Also just realized Raul Seixas would have turned 80 this month.
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Ana Leorne @analeorne.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
🌞Paris! Next Wednesday June 11th it’s Tropicália night at the Pigalle Country Club🌞 Come celebrate the release of my new @3313books.bsky.social book with the best acid/tropi/psych sounds especially curated for the occasion 🍍 •from 9pm, free entry• Links for purchasing in bio✨
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Ana Leorne @analeorne.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
🌞Paris! Next Wednesday June 11th it’s Tropicália night at the Pigalle Country Club🌞 Come celebrate the release of my new @3313books.bsky.social book with the best acid/tropi/psych sounds especially curated for the occasion 🍍 •from 9pm, free entry• Links for purchasing in bio✨
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Ana Leorne @analeorne.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
If you're wondering what Sam Bernett's on about regarding Jim Morrison's actual death circumstances aka the French narrative, you should read my book (featuring an awesome cover photo of the bust by the great @carlabrahamsson.bsky.social): www.bygge.trapart.net?product=leor...
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Leorne, Ana: This Is the Strangest Life I’ve Ever Known – A Psychological Portrait of Jim Morrison (paperback)
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Ana Leorne @analeorne.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Last day to get Tropicália (and a bunch of other cool books) at 30% off! www.bloomsbury.com/uk/tropic%C3...
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Tropicália
This comprehensive portrait of Tropicália, exploring everything from influences and results to context and main players, demonstrates how the genre helped reinv…
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Ana Leorne @analeorne.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
I should be better at promoting my stuff but YAY HAPPY TWO WEEKIVERSARY TO TROPICÁLIA 🌞🌞🌞🌞 Invite me to your podcast/magazine/party to talk about it! And also BUY MY BOOK! It’s 30% off at @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social’s website until Sunday: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/tropic%C3...
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33 1/3 Books @3313books.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Want a deal on some 33 1/3 books? Head to the Bloomsbury website to get up to 30% off until Sunday in their May sale.
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Ana Leorne @analeorne.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Replace "novel" with "book" and "reading comics" with "watching telenovelas" and that's me.
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Ana Leorne @analeorne.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Sounds like a good opportunity to buy Tropicália 😌 www.bloomsbury.com/uk/tropic%C3...
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Tropicália
This comprehensive portrait of Tropicália, exploring everything from influences and results to context and main players, demonstrates how the genre helped reinv…
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Christoph Kalter @christophkalter.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
"Global Histories of the Portuguese Revolution," @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social, eds. Luís Trindade, Rita Lucas Narra, Ricardo Noronha, @pramospinto.bsky.social. An awesome book! Have a chapter in there that writes the "retornados" aka decolonization, Cold War, and refugeeness back into the picture.
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Carl Abrahamsson @carlabrahamsson.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
As we’re working on The Fenris Wolf 13, I’m amazed at all the mind-bending material in number 12: amzn.to/3RQmIuP #thefenriswolf #occulture #vanessasinclair #carlabrahamsson
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Ana Leorne @analeorne.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
🍍IT’S OUT!🍍 My book on Tropicália for @3313books.bsky.social is out now on @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social, available pretty much everywhere (links in bio) though I’d encourage you to support your local bookstores whenever possible. ✨Gal e Rita, esse daí é pra vocês✨
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33 1/3 Books @3313books.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Music has always been a powerful form of protest. This is especially true of Brazilian artistic movement, Tropicália. Ana Leorne shares how this vibrant genre is as relevant today as it was over half a century ago. Read: bit.ly/4ig5AJJ
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33 1/3 Books @3313books.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Over on the blog today, the fabulous Ana Leorne tells us more about her addition to Genre: A 33 1/3 Series, Tropicália. She shares what it was like to write the book and the songs she recommends you give a listen if you're new to the genre. Read here: bit.ly/3E2A04k
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TEATLES @teatles.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Countup Countdown to TEATLES 5 Les Teatles Magazine 16 July 2022 With Dominic Lewington @alphaood.bsky.social Nigel Underwood, Linsey Robertson @analeorne.bsky.social Stephanie Espinetti, Nicole O’Hara, me, @missyel.bsky.social @plasticpalacealice.bsky.social @dawidmamczur.bsky.social
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TEATLES @teatles.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Countup Countdown to TEATLES 5 The Teatles Book 13 January 2022 with @caithlin.bsky.social Dom Lewington, Elizabeth Sowden, Howard Bowden, Tracy Neis, @jillianreilly.bsky.social @ttbrader.bsky.social @gabelvitch66.bsky.social @analeorne.bsky.social @curraghman.bsky.social @edfrizzell.bsky.social
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Ana Leorne @analeorne.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Celebrating IWD with the announcement that my chapter on Rita Lee's unique autobiographical style and the importance of women reclaiming their narrative will be published this summer as part of the collective volume Rereading Musicians and Their Audiences: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/rereading...
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Ana Leorne @analeorne.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Celebrating IWD with the announcement that my chapter on Rita Lee's unique autobiographical style and the importance of women reclaiming their narrative will be published this summer as part of the collective volume Rereading Musicians and Their Audiences: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/rereading...
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Ana Leorne @analeorne.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
🚨BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT🚨 I'm very excited to announce that my book on Tropicália for @3313books.bsky.social Genre series is now available for preorder via @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social and a bunch of other places (support your local bookstores!). It's out this spring: www.bloomsbury.com/us/tropic%C3...
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Ana Leorne @analeorne.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
🚨BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT🚨 I'm very excited to announce that my book on Tropicália for @3313books.bsky.social Genre series is now available for preorder via @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social and a bunch of other places (support your local bookstores!). It's out this spring: www.bloomsbury.com/us/tropic%C3...
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