Recently I have reread The Dispossessed, Le Guin. Going into it, I had a vague feeling he had short hair on his whole body, but I couldn’t remember anything else about his appearance. So I tried to gather what I could find, and here it is, from knobby baby to tall adult.

• a knobby [baby]
• a lanky eight-year-old with long hands and feet
• His eyes were light, and the light from the window filled them so they seemed clear as water.
• his colorless face, silvered with fine short hair
• He was still lanky, with big hands, protruding ears, and angular joints, but in the perfect health and strength of early manhood he was very beautiful. His dun-colored hair, like the others’, was fine and straight, worn at its full length and kept off the forehead with a band.
• the thin boy with big ears
• light, steady, intelligent eyes
• His light skin had tanned and the fine down that covered his face had bleached to silver
• His hands, work-hard and blackened by frostbite, lay loose on his thighs; his face in relaxation was lined and sad.
• the splendid reticent face, full of life but worn down, worn to the bone
• light, remote eyes
• a tall, frail figure
• the fine shaggy head
• his height, his long hair
• the very fine, soft, short body hair of his race
• He read that he was a towering giant of a man, that he was unshaven and possessed a ‘mane,’ whatever that was, of greying hair
• his long, thin figure and narrow feet
• two legs, two arms, and a head with some kind of brain in it
• count his fingers and toes, add them up to twenty
• his long, rough, dun-grey hair tied back with a piece of string
• You Cetians are all so tall!

And that’s that.