The Penumbra Affair was based on a circular theory... pilgrims' progress for a digital age.. at the center of a staged CIA-FBI-DOD world-peace-global-government project... drug dealer money supporting the pope... using a public apology for 2000 years of shadowy homosexuality and pedophilia... financial and psychological impropriety... to get the Muslims on board... while the Korean dictator and the Russian president took control...everyone wondered...they thought it was secret...not really...not at all...it was too obvious for words... introduces circular realism as a livable philosophy for a digital age. The penumbra conserves a circle.