This "random-access nature of human memory" is not completely random, but often triggered, as, for instance, a certain smell of oranges may remind someone of her first time picking oranges from her grandparents' trees in Florida. Kendall's goal in this attempt, though, is to parallel the "multiplicity and contingency" of the body in life. One is unaware of what is possible regarding the body throughout one's life--it shapes itself into unsuspected forms as it hits puberty, and then again at middle age, once again in old age, and finally decomposes itself in death. The last form is the only one of which people can anticipate and be somewhat sure.