The following excerpt comes from Siddhartha and puzzles me because, although I understand what the translator is trying to convey, I cannot convince myself that the latter part of the sentence is grammatically correct.
"No, something else in him had died, something that he had long desired should perish."
It is as if the translator is wanting to treat the "something" as the subject of "should perish" but, should that be the case, how can the sentence be correct grammatically when one takes the nested desired-clause into consideration?