"We often move to the objects of supreme curiosity or desire, not in the lines of castle or bishop on the chess-board, but with the knight's zigzag, at first in the wrong direction, making believe to ourselves we are not after the thing coveted." -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Zev is a variation for the Hebrew for Wolf, which can best be transliterated as Ze'ev. Zev or Ze'ev is also a modern Hebrew first name, meaning "Wolf", and derived from the German first name via Yiddish.
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