puckett writes:

> Dean was ecstatic. Carlo was being intense and focused and tried unloading his heart onto Dean, but Dean was having none of it. "Carlo, Carlo, you fine gone daddy you, this is all very excellent and very good with you speaking to me but you must understand this, all of this. Remote procedure calls! Yes!" And on and on into the night.

I read this as "uploading his heart into Dean."

This falls into a difficult class of mutual remote procedural calls, sometimes known as remote coprocessing. Use of the word "remote" has also been questioned, depending on the context of "heart." In the sense of a virtual upload, the failure rate has been observed to be greatly reduced by increased proximity. In a more absolute sense, an upload of heart more nearly ressembles fault-tolerant operation, and the calling unit should not expect a return. Continuing asynchronous operation may be problematic.