Lower left is Dale Cooper from Twin Peaks
You should give The Left Hand of Darkness a[nother] try. One of my favorite aspects of the book is that, as the story progresses, the layers of seperation between the narrator and the native people are stripped away; how he gradually drops his air of detatched "science" and begins to see them as fully persons.
There is a fair bit about the Gethens sex/gender, and it's quite political/sociological (all of which drew me in) but there's a beautiful humanistic story that blossoms as the narrative transitions thru its many different stages.
Luxury!
In my day we shared a desk with the next-door office and had to fight for desk space!
It worked for me when I logged out and back in again
I found this after a little bit
The Dutch authorities found him responsible but declined to charge him
Roelofs founded Stichting Cassandra, a foundation that defends the interests of victims of sexual and psychological violence