With hundreds of years of baseless myth to supply us, it’s no wonder as many as six percent of people are phobic of arachnids.

As for not noticing someone’s phobic tendencies, remember: Having to get along to get by is a powerful incentive to keep our hostilities, our “stuff,” tucked away.

Croft: There’s still some resistance from editors of a certain generation — to translation itself, to properly crediting and remunerating the translator — but I think people are less phobic than they once might have been.

“They are now marketing Botox to people in their 20s, and if you get people to be phobic about aging when they’re young, you have an ever-replenishing market for your products.”

In this early project, Goodman described himself as commitment phobic while Walsh purported to fall in love perhaps too easily.