No Parsi would want the mystic eye of the vulture to be replaced by the rapacious one of the land shark.
Those compelling questions, coupled with a petty reference about "vulture capitalism" from the departing Rick Perry, initiated Gingrich's surge last week.
That's the conclusion to be drawn from the full-page ads taken out in newspapers around the world criticising last week's decision by the US supreme court in favour of American-based vulture funds that have waged a decade-long battle with Buenos Aires to be paid in full for debt bought up at rock-bottom prices.
The latter is likely to head into full-on supervillain terrain, with Spider-Man's enemies Doctor Octopus, Sandman, Electro, the Vulture, Mysterio and Kraven the Hunter taking centre stage.
Fourteen years later, it is still being pursued through the courts by so-called vulture funds, which buy distressed countries' debts on the cheap and use every legal device they can to reclaim the money.
And there is a risk that those creditors that did agree to the restructuring – accounting for more than 90% of the debt – will then want the same terms as the vulture funds.
Bridget Beale A vulture rides on the back of a crocodile perched on the head of an African woman going to market.
There is a degree of relish in her voice as she talks me through the journey on which Orlando goes, the way the character's life is reflected in lovers taken along the way, the way she is briefly "consumed by sex, by what Woolf called the vulture of lust", the way "she learns from the world" and the way in which Orlando, ultimately, "becomes herself in the end".
Getting the vulture back into Doongerwadis may be a romantic ideal for a species as threatened, but we may have to accept that it is impractical, even inadvisable, in today's urban crunch.
The case of Argentina shows that corporations have a stronger legal position in bankruptcy law than countries, and that the interests of investors in vulture funds count for more than those of citizens.
However, according to New York Magazine's Vulture, which broke the story, the Harris show will not be called Saturday Night Takeaway and will not air on Saturdays.
