“I once looked after two sheep for about eight weeks,” said Van Rossem. He did not state the context of this striking commission. “They are such conniving beasts. They always tried to bite my fingers and they looked with those scary eyes. You saw them thinking: he thinks we can’t and don’t know anything, but woe betide if we get hold of him.”
Van Rossem therefore does not fall asleep by counting sheep. “I often think about going for a nice walk,” he tipped. The smartest person has started its twentieth season this week. In the program more or less famous Dutch people have to answer questions about very diverse subjects.