“Continents” in America

If ” no man is an island”, I prefer to be part of a continent of those who need the life and insights of books. Certainly there is, if only by the fate of birth and upbringing, a “continent” of society, of heart and soul, and death…yet that is far from enough for those who in their islandic selves need and seek insights and ununderstanding. If “no Man is an Island”… then these would be self-educed non-islands.