Both Uses of
vertical
in
Nine Stories
- To do otherwise, I feel, would be tantamount to implying or stating that the difference in spiritual sorties between St. Francis and the average, highstrung, Sunday leper-kisser is only a vertical one.†
Story 8vertical = straight up and down
- Not a minute later, though, he turned up, obtrusively vertical, among the deck-chair ranks.†
Story 9 *
Definition:
oriented straight up and down
(When you are standing, you could be thought of as vertical. When lying down, you could be thought of as horizontal.)
(When you are standing, you could be thought of as vertical. When lying down, you could be thought of as horizontal.)