I recently had the opportunity to see The Lion King on Broadway with my daughter. It was the first time I had seen it, and the first time I heard the song “He Lives in You.”

As I found myself humming it this week, I realized that it sums up a major idea of Finnegans Wake, that we each embody the past. An Eternal Story plays through all of history, and it is present right here, right now, in each of us.

In this post, I explore this idea and discuss the one sentence I found in the Wake that contains the name “Simba.”