The majority of objects and specimens in the Museum of Experience were collected by Perse, the Conservator, who spent decades engaged in anthropological research throughout The Fringe. Perse's other lifelong task was the production of Field Notes: A Polemic. Available in fourteen volumes, the Field Notes reveal Perse's observations, musings, and deep connection to a figure known as "Padulweis" - sometimes "Paddulwheeze" or "Padulweiss" or "PaDULwise" - the addressee of the journals. Extant manifests and records have not independently corroborated the existence of any Padulweis.