e.g.The word "war"carries cultural as well as political meaning,as does "peace". "Love"is an Anglo-Saxon word/old English word,as are "help"and "begin". 2)We will often come across "pool"in later texts.So at present,concentrate on this one use in the text. In English there are two words spelt "pool",but they are different not only in meaning but also in origin.One "pool"(a pond,a puddle,or a swimming pool)comes down from old English,and the other "pool"enters English from Latin through French.It means essentially a putting together of things (money,goods,workers,etc.)for some common purpose or for common use,or (as in "word pool")a common supply of things. *S5 (this)--see below,10 7.(S6.)Whichever side won called the losers rebels --they, the winners,being the repositories of virtue and more gunpowd- er. 1)paraphrase:No matter which side won the war,the winners called the losers rebels as they now came to represent what was good and right and lawful as well as power and authority. 2)The participle phrase (being)indicates cause,but the dash suggests something added afterwards,a deviation from the original definition of the word (redefining). 3)ironic juxtaposition of virtue and gunpowder more gunpowder:stronger,more powerful,actually the cause of their being able to redefine language and to call the other side rebels ("virtue":suspicious?) "amusing results"(1.28):language of conquerors 4)repository:storehouse (place,concrete)of virtue (quality,abstract) cf.the road map (image)of a culture (more abstract) 5)"whoever wins the war"--also a subject clause, whoever.anyone who (anyone,no matter who),or any side that (any side,no matter which) e.g.Whoever has played with a tarot deck knows the image of the wheel of fortune well. 8.Since the North won that war,it can be dismissed as a... (11.33-35) since conj.indicating cause (used only of known facts) e.g.They now call themselves lawful since they won the war and have since (adv.indicating time)been in power. 9.(S7.)Jacobins--members of a society of radical democrats in France during the Revolution of 1789;their meetings were held