it was n't that he did n't dare tell rawlie what was going on , that rawlie would think he was crazy if he did ; college and university professors have much more flexible views on the subject of craziness than most other people , and sometimes they have no view of it at all , preferring to think of people as either dull ( but sane ) , rather eccentric ( but sane ) , or very eccentric ( but still quite sane , old boy ) .