At the brink of academic distinction, composer Joshua Cody faces a life-altering diagnosis: an aggressive cancer threatening his very existence. In '[sic]: A Memoir,' Cody recounts his harrowing journey with an electrifying voice that oscillates between the scholarly and the sensual, the despairing and the defiant. As he navigates through intensive chemotherapy, a bone marrow transplant, and the specter of mortality, Cody's narrative is replete with vivid allusions to cultural titans from Beethoven to The Rolling Stones, interwoven with raw instances of hedonism and self-destruction. His account is more than a mere chronicle of illness; it's an audacious affirmation of art, language, and life itself, tinged with the hallucinatory quality of a feverish dream.